Chapter 562: Daxing Battle
It is said that Ouyang Chun, Du Wei, Wang Wei, and Ding Mu led 30,000 troops to attack Puzhou.
Mei Xu, the prime minister of Zhou, led a large army to guard the border of Daxing County, and lined up accordingly.
Ouyang Chun ordered Ding Mu to be the vanguard and launched an offensive towards the checkpoint, and Dewey and Wang Wei in the rear pressed the formation, personally escorted the grain and grass, and slowly advanced.
Ding Mu came to the pass to challenge, but Mei Xu ignored it, and the whole army held on, focusing on defense.
Seeing that the other party refused to go out of the customs to fight, Ding Mu led his troops to attack, but was repelled by Mei Xu.
Dewey and Wang Wei led the troops to arrive, and launched another offensive with Ding Mu's troops, and the rolling stones and sasswoods and arrows and gold juice on the checkpoint were impermeable, and they failed to win several strong attacks in a row.
Ouyang Chun got the battle report, sent scouts to reconnoiter the terrain around the checkpoint, formulated a surprise attack strategy, and ordered Dewey to lead the troops to make a detour, climb the nearby mountains, and find a shortcut. Ding Mu and Wang Wei attacked in front of the pass to attract Mei Xu's attention, and Dewey suddenly entered the pass from the side.
Mei Xu was defeated, and led the army to urgently abandon the checkpoint, fighting and retreating in a defensive formation.
The Chinese army occupied the border checkpoint and pursued it all the way.
Along the way, the county sent troops to aid Meixu, and fought many battles with the Chinese army, each with wins and losses.
Mei Xu set up a fire plan to break the Chinese army, Ouyang Chun calculated that today's spring rain is coming, and he will plan to induce Mei Xu.
Mei Xuzhongji, due to the failure of the fire attack in the wet weather, was defeated by Ouyang Chun's ambush and was almost captured.
Zhou Yuan led the troops to appear, rescued Mei Xu, and retreated to Daxing County with his troops.
Ouyang Chun led the troops, took Dewey, Wang Wei, and Ding Mu to capture the county towns along the way, and killed all the way to the vicinity of Daxing County.
The troops of Daxing County may not be able to stop Ouyang Chun, and the barbarians in the city are not very obedient, and they always disturb the people, which makes Mei Xu and Zhou Yuan have a headache.
When Ouyang Chun's troops approached the city, the two urgently discussed.
"General, the Chinese army is pressing forward step by step, our troops are insufficient, and those barbarian soldiers are extremely poor, difficult to restrain and unable to do what their arms say! If this continues, it will be difficult for Daxing County to defend!" Mei Xu said solemnly, "In my opinion, it is better to release that monster out of the city!"
Zhou Yuan's face changed when he heard this: "But that monster was driven by His Majesty with the power of the whole country, specifically to deal with the King of Danyang." If it is released at this moment, it will be difficult to catch it! What if we escape and endanger the people?"
"I can't control it so much! If Daxing County is breached, the danger of monsters falling into the hands of Hua Guo will be even worse!" Mei Xu said, "It's better to break the Hua army and then make plans." ”
"This ......" Zhou Yuan frowned and pondered, and finally sighed, "It's okay! If Daxing County is lost, the door of Puzhou will be wide open, which will be unfavorable to our country." According to the Prime Minister's words, release the monster to deal with Ouyang Chun!"
It turned out that Sima Fa proposed that Zhou, Liang, and Nancheng each inquire and collect news about "monsters" in their own territories, and mobilized all the states and counties, and finally found a few real "monsters" from countless rumors through screening and on-the-spot verification.
The previous two poisonous lizards that were found in the territory of Liang and lured to Nancheng are examples.
On the side of the Zhou State, it was verified that there was also a "monster" in the surrounding barbarian Puduo, and Tang Niu finally captured it with great hardship and spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and rushed to Daxing County, which was originally used to deal with Ning Ze. Now that Ning Ze is going south, facing the pressure of the Chinese army attacking the city, he feels that it is difficult to resist, so Mei Xu thought of this method.
Outside the city, the Chinese army was ready to storm the city again.
Mei Xu and Zhou Yuan decided to let the "monster" out of the city, first overwhelm the Huaguo formation, plunge the other party into chaos, and then take the opportunity to kill.
The two led their troops to a camp in the city, which was extremely well defended, surrounded by towering wooden walls, layer upon layer of protection.
Mei Xu ordered the monster to be expelled, and immediately a general led his troops to erect a movable wooden wall on both sides of the road, leading to the entrance of the camp.
The gates of the camp were slowly raised by sling tools, and many soldiers were beating gongs and drums outside the walls, making noise.
There was only a deafening roar under the noise, and the ground suddenly shook, and all the soldiers were so frightened that they hid behind the wall and did not dare to move.
Out of the camp came a behemoth in full armor, with barbs on its back and a hammer-shaped tail.
It obviously hated the sound of gongs and drums around it, and was a little irritable, and turned its head to see the wooden walls standing on both sides of the road, so it moved forward along the road enclosed by the wooden wall.
As the behemoth moved, the soldiers in the rear quietly removed the movable wooden wall, quickly moved to the front to connect it, and passed all the way to the city gate. The other soldiers were beating gongs and drums in the rear, and they were driven away with noise.
Obviously, after paying a lot of human sacrifices, the soldiers of the Zhou State had found a way to drive away the "monster", at least not the initial head-to-head confrontation, and then it was trampled, rammed, and stoned to death with its tail.
In this way, the "monster" successfully rushed to the vicinity of the city gate.
Mei Xu ordered the door to be opened, and the soldiers defending the city opened the gate and quickly fled.
When the Chinese troops outside the city saw this scene, they didn't know why. However, since the enemy army opened the city gate, it was not polite.
Dewey immediately led his troops to rush into the city and kill the Taishou Mansion.
The city gate is particularly high and large, not to mention the cavalry, even the charging vehicles can easily enter.
The Chinese army slaughtered near the city gate, and the city wall immediately fired thousands of arrows.
Dewey asked the soldiers to raise their shields and brave a hail of arrows to propel the carts forward.
A noisy sound of gongs and drums suddenly sounded in the city, causing the Huaguo generals to show puzzled expressions.
This beating of gongs and drums can be regarded as welcoming your own army into the city?
If that were the case, why should there be thousands of arrows on the walls, all the rolling stones and logs were ready, and the soldiers were covering their mouths and noses, and placing buckets of steaming gold juice on the walls.
If it weren't for Kaesong's surrender, what the hell would you be doing?
Just when the Chinese soldiers were full of doubts and braved the rain of arrows to kill the moat, they suddenly felt the earth shake, and a strange roar appeared.
A huge figure appeared in the city, with an extremely strange appearance, even a well-informed and experienced veteran could not name it, and he had not even seen it in his life.
After the huge monster appeared, its eyes fell on the Chinese army outside the city, and it roared extremely irritably, suddenly spread its legs, and rushed towards Dewey's side.
It was so heavy that the ground shook with every step it took.
The sound of gongs and drums in the city became louder and louder, and the monster became more irritable, only to see countless Chinese soldiers in front of him.
"What is this?!" Dewey was startled to find that the monster ignored the continuous rain of arrows from the defenders of the city, and the arrows hit its thick "armor", and all of them were bounced away, and it could not hurt it at all.
It quickly broke through the rain of arrows, came to the Chinese army, and ran rampant against the attack of the Chinese soldiers.
Sharp weapons hit it, and all of them were bounced off, and the defense was simply amazing!
Even its head was extraordinarily hard, with a layer of incomparably thick skin bulging slightly, making it difficult to break with its sword.
It's not completely invincible, and those relatively sophisticated weapons can still leave a white mark on its hard skin.
The Chinese army, which was full of morale, was in chaos in front of this monster.
The first is people's innate fear of this unknown "monster", and the second is that this "monster" is invulnerable and huge. The majestic warhorse neighed timidly in front of it, panicked uncontrollably, and desperately fled. The terrifying tail waved like a giant hammer, which could instantly fly people and horses, and directly blur the flesh and blood.
In just a few moments, Dewey's troops suffered nearly 100 casualties.
Seeing this, Dewey felt that no matter how strong his ability was, he couldn't stop this kind of monster, and if he really wanted to rush forward on horseback, it was very likely that he would be swept by its tail and hit the sky with a hammer. Instead of decisively ordering the withdrawal of troops, avoid the monsters first.
The army retreated sharply under the leadership of Dewey, and alerted Wang Wei, Ding Mu, and even Ouyang Chu to prevent their troops from being attacked by monsters.
The monster was obviously in a state of extreme irritability, and although it didn't seem to eat people, it chased after people when it saw them, and catching up was a rush, a stampede, or a tail sweep, full of attacking intent.
The Chinese army retreated rapidly, and the monster chased after it all the way.
Dewey rode a fast horse and quickly retreated, rendezvous with Ouyang Chun, Wang Wei, and Ding Mu, but he didn't have time to say more, and after the gathering, he fled frantically.
The army retreated for ten miles, and the monster finally stopped chasing and turned around and headed for the nearby mountains and forests.
The Chinese army ran very badly, and the formation was all out of order.
In fact, they were frightened by this sudden appearance of the "monster", and if they really want to fight with all their might, the "monster" is not invincible.
This chaotic escape, leaving behind many vehicles loaded with ordnance and rations, and many soldiers fled indiscriminately and completely separated from the troops.
Mei Xu and Zhou Yuan saw this scene in the city, determined that the "monster" was away from a safe distance, and immediately led their troops out of the city to seize the spoils of war and capture hundreds of Chinese soldiers.
The battle was successful, and the Chinese army urgently retreated ten miles, and the "monster" remained nearby, and they did not dare to return easily.
However, the soldiers in the city also have some scruples about the "monster", and it is very difficult to recapture it. Not to mention that the Chinese army did not leave, and was eyeing the neighborhood.
For this reason, Mei Xu said to Zhou Yuan: "Although the monster is used to temporarily scare off the soldiers and horses of the Chinese Kingdom, it is possible that the monster will leave the vicinity, which is difficult to predict. Ouyang Chun is not an ordinary person, and it is possible that he will think of a way to subdue the monster and kill it again. To be on the safe side, when the flying pigeon sent a message to urgently contact Bian Zhou, please ask Your Majesty to send reinforcements!"
Zhou Yuan nodded when he heard this: "Daxing County is the gateway to Puzhou, and it must be guarded!"
So he personally wrote a letter, brought it back to Bian Zhou with carrier pigeons, and asked Tang Niu to send soldiers and horses to reinforce Daxing County.
Tang Niu received the letter, learned of the battle situation on the front line, and decided to drive the expedition in person, and personally led the Bian Zhou army to set off to the border and move in the direction of Puzhou.
The Chinese army was caught off guard by the "monsters", retreated and set up camp, and urgently discussed.
Ouyang Chun sent the dead soldiers and asked them to go to the mountains and forests where the "monster" was located to investigate, observe the monster's movements, and record its behavior. It is necessary to find out why the "monster" left halfway and no longer pursued and killed the Chinese army. What kind of monster does it belong to, and can it communicate?