Chapter 240 Gambling

An Xiaoliang was a little panicked. originally thought that such a small broken city could be swept down with a single drum, so he pressed all the Miao soldiers in his hands in one go, and he didn't expect to be beaten back without even touching the wall, so he didn't leave any reserves to block the pursuers.

Generally speaking, when the attack fails and the rout occurs, the defenders usually open the door and counterattack: the defeat is decided, and no one wants to die meaninglessly under the city like wild dogs at this time, so they will desperately flee with all their might. Except for the generals on the earthen ramparts who watched the battle in the rear, they didn't have the perspective of God who could look down on the battlefield, and none of the big-headed soldiers knew how many pursuers there were behind them - and the generals couldn't notify the rout in front in time! Therefore, even if there are only two or three hundred pursuers, they can often turn thousands of soulless guys into wolves. Therefore, the main general of the attacking side must always hold a reserve in his hand, and at this time go up to block the pursuers and cover the retreat of the large army.

However, unexpectedly, at the time of this rout, the elite Ming troops guarding Lu Guang did not take advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack, and the city was lively for a while before it quieted down again, and no one even cut off the wall to cut the head - although Miao Man's head is not very valuable compared to Dongyu, but no matter how little it is, it is money! Why is that? An Xiaoliang pondered it again, and finally came to the conclusion: these defenders are all elite, but they must still be too few in number - otherwise, why don't they dare to chase them? This truth is as obvious as one plus one equals two, but don't want to hide it from the clever leader An!

Thinking about this layer, An Xiaoliang was relieved, so he left two thousand people to block the door - well, remember, there were only a thousand people who blocked the east gate before, judging from this move, Leader An is still very cautious, right? Others continued to send out to harvest crops. As for the unfavorable siege of the city, the "small setback" is a bit too embarrassing, and the loss is not very big anyway, so he didn't report it to An Bangyan - so, Lu Guang suddenly appeared a strange elite Ming army, Elder An didn't know at all!

An Bangyan's advantage is that he has a lively brain, and his disadvantage is that he does not dare to make up his mind in the face of major choices, and he used to besiege Guiyang as a dead city and was reluctant to invest heavily in the attack, so that the success was defeated. Looking at the Luxury Alliance from a modern perspective, if King Hao is the commander-in-chief and Elder An is the chief of staff, it may be the best match; However, in fact, on the contrary, the An family was powerful, and An Bangyan naturally became the commander. The alliance between the two sides is also relatively loose, and although they can support each other relatively selflessly when they are frustrated, they are fighting each other most of the time, lacking coordination and cooperation, let alone discussing and formulating common strategic goals, which is an inherent shortcoming.

In any case, An Xiaoliang finally launched an attack on Lu Guang, and these days An Kuniyan was busy grabbing the crops wholeheartedly, and at the same time he was afraid that Sun Jie would suddenly appear on the north bank of the Xiangshui River. Fortunately, the wind and waves were calm a few days ago, and Elder An looked at the fields that had been harvested for most of the time, and gradually relieved himself.

Along the mountain road that Zhang Fang had carved out to deliver grain to An Bangyan, Sun Jie's march was very easy. After a few cannons, the rough wooden gate of Zhijin Village became a piece of wood scum flying everywhere, and most of the elite and young men followed An Bangyan to the north, how could the old and weak who stayed behind stop the ironclad sharps who swarmed in? The people in the old village fled in all directions, but at the foot of the mountain outside the village, An Yunao's 4,000 town soldiers were already in battle. Everyone is a mountain people, but on the one hand, they are young and strong who are waiting for work, and on the other hand, they are old and young who are afraid and out of breath, and the Miao people in the old village have all been driven back.

Fortunately, Sun Jie was not a thirst for killing, and those who tried to resist were naturally killed on the spot, while most of the others saved their lives - of course, Sun Jie was not a saint, and the villagers were forced by knives and guns to fill in the trenches outside the village, demolish all the remaining walls, and burn down the only earthen watchtower in the whole village. An Bangyan's family wealth was all into Sun Jie's military treasury (some were distributed to An Yunao), and other odd goods such as gold, silver, copper, money, and cloth fell into the pockets of officers and soldiers at all levels in Han and Turkey.

Sun Jie didn't know anything about the surrounding environment of Zhijin, and from the landscape painting in his hand, the village was surrounded by mountains, so he originally planned to go north immediately after laying down An Bangyan's lair. But when I entered the village, I unexpectedly found that in addition to a few sheep intestine trails that the mountain people had come out of the mountains, there was a road that was not too narrow to wind to the east. After interrogating the prisoners, this road turned out to be built by An Bangyan in order to attack the Rouyuan Institute that Liu Chao had occupied, and after the two places were successful, the two places traveled more frequently, and the Zhijin Village was only less than a hundred miles away from the Rouyuan Institute.

The captured military rations in the Zhijin Village were piled up. In order to ensure the speed of the march of the army, in any era, the common practice is always to burn all the materials that cannot be brought with them, and must not leave the enemy. Sun Jie, who was feeling distressed, heard the news, his eyes lit up, he pondered for a moment, beckoned to An Yunao, and explained carefully for a while, and the latter took a few captives with more brains and led more than a thousand town soldiers straight to Rouyuan.

Lu Zhao, the leader of the Thousand Households guarding Rouyuan, was easily deceived by the captives to open the camp gate, and in less than an hour, the three hundred Miao soldiers were all killed by An Yunao. In the following days, An Yunao and his Zhenxiong soldiers methodically forced the men, women, and children of Zhijinzhai to load the grain and grass onto the ship, and only by waiting for Sun Jie's order, nearly 100 fully loaded grain ships will sail down the Sancha River to Yachi.

After receiving the news that Rouyuan had been ordered, Sun Jie immediately returned north with his army. However, he did not cross the river from Yizhuzexi, which was closest to Yachi, but walked west after converging Shangguan Fei's horse team and Liu Tieniu's artillery group, and set up a pontoon bridge in the area of Huajiao Zexi directly south of Luxiangyi, not only avoiding the eyes and ears left by An Bangyan on the north bank, but also capturing Luxiangyi with lightning speed, and the troops pointed directly at Shuixiyi, and at most four or five days could appear unexpectedly behind An Bangyan...... However, at this time, the crops outside the city had been harvested by the latter, and the attack on the city had already begun.

An Bangyan likes to play tricks in war, and is not very good at strong attacks. Especially at present, a large amount of grain and grass is already in hand, although it is not comparable to the hoarding of Laozhai, but it is more than enough to maintain the action of the army for half a year. In the past, with Elder An's habit of accepting it when he saw it, it was time to lead the army away.

However, this time is different, the nest has been lost, tens of thousands of people have been homeless, and in everyone's impression, the Han dogs like to slaughter the old and young women and children who have no power to fight back, and most of the family members who stayed in the village have been poisoned by the Ming dogs, therefore, the crowd is raging, and everyone's hearts are burning with the anger of blood debt and blood - this anger is something that An Bangyan can't suppress and dare not disobey no matter what. What's more, according to the messenger, An Xiaoliang surrounded Lu Guang like an iron bucket, and the extremely limited number of defenders were bound to death in the city, and it was impossible for them to come to help.

Lu Guang had been taken over by the Ming army of Chengdu Wei led by Lao Shun, and Liu Chao was able to concentrate all the soldiers under his command in Yachi to defend it. Rao is like this, the offensive of the Shuixi army is enough to make him feel a chill: since the moment of engagement, the attacks from all directions have hardly stopped, not only that, the Shuixi thieves all regard death as home, and more than a thousand corpses have been put down under each wall in the evening of the first day, but the Shuixi thieves will not retreat, and even begin to raise fire and attack at night after dusk! This kind of tragic and cruel war is something that has never been encountered in the past few years since he joined Guizhou, oh no, it has never been encountered since Vice Marshal Liu joined the army.

By the third day, the corpses under the western wall were several feet high. However, no matter how scared he is, Liu Chao can only fight hard: Lord Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the five provinces, personally sits in Yachi, and even runs to the walls from time to time to watch the battle with great interest - not to mention that throwing the old man to An Reverse and running away will definitely be happy to mention the prize of destroying the door, and Lord Zhu, who has the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War, is rubbed by a stray arrow, and a new deputy general will never be able to bear the responsibility! Liu Chao didn't expect that a civil official would be so bold, but unfortunately Lao Shun was not there, otherwise he would have told the story of the old man who was not afraid of danger in Chengdu to Vice Marshal Liu. Under the repeated assault of the Shuixi army almost at any cost, Liu Chao's losses gradually increased, except for the western wall where he personally sat down, the southern, northern and eastern walls had the critical situation of the Shuixi army ascending the city. begged Lord Zhu several times, but the old man insisted on not letting go, always saying that the time had not come, and he held Sun Jie's personal guard battalion in his hands, so on the fourth day of the fight, Liu Chao was forced to make a desperate bet, dismantled his own personal army, and sent them all to the walls to supervise the battle, and at the same time scolded Sun Jie's ancestors for eighteen generations over and over again in his heart.

With Zhu Xieyuan here, the loss of grain and grass is distressed, but sooner or later he will be able to find a way to make up for some ordinary soldiers, and if he dies, he will die, and Lord Zhu has also left down how much he dies to make up for it - of course it is impossible for the old man to give birth to hundreds of sons to pay Liu Chao by himself, the subtext of this is that he will turn a blind eye to the Latin court after the war, but there are dead people in the two battalions that he brought from Hechi, Liu Chao is really distressed! Not to mention the guards and thousands of henchmen, even if they are veterans, their rich battlefield experience is by no means comparable to just pulling a young man.

Liu Chao was complaining, and An Bangyan outside the city also felt bad. Such a fight at any cost, not to mention that it was the first time for Elder An, even Le Chongming had never done this. In such a small city, there were already five or six thousand casualties on their side, and they still failed to break through, and the biggest progress was only a dozen or so people on the wall, and they were knocked down in less than a stick of incense. Looking at the heads on the wall that had not diminished in the slightest, Elder An muttered in his heart: It is certain that the defenders will have more than 1,000 casualties, and maybe even 2,000. Judging from the firepower output of the city, the main force defending the city is still a soldier, not a slave auxiliary who can only throw bricks and stones! How many soldiers did Liu Gou have in Yachi, didn't you leave anyone to guard Lu Guang?

As soon as he thought of this, An Bangyan immediately sent someone to find An Xiaoliang, asking him to stop taking care of the remaining few acres of land, attack Lu Guang with all his might, and then immediately return to help, and be sure to take down the duck pond before Sun Jie appeared. The next day, the messenger brought a dismal news: the fields over there had also been cut, and the head of An had launched an attack on Lu Guang, but was repelled by the defenders - well, this was the second time, the head of An had hit the east gate once a few days earlier, but was beaten back on the spot, according to him, the defenders were not Hechi soldiers, but the elite Ming army of Sichuan Province......

An Bangyan suddenly felt a darkness in front of him: the elite Sichuan soldiers assisted in guarding Lu Guang, and Liu Chao's troops were guarding Yachi, and large areas of ready-made crops were left outside the city to be cut by themselves...... The Han dogs teamed up to dig a big hole for Ann! Moreover, until now, there has not been any news from the Toast Boss on the side of Longli Xintian, although I don't know where Sun Jie is at this time, but it will definitely not be too far away from him!

An Bangyan, who finally understood, immediately ordered: the whole army stopped attacking, took all the grain and grass to the west across the Yachi River and retreated in the direction of Guliyi, and those who disobeyed the order were immediately beheaded!

However, it was still a little late: not long after retreating across the Yachi River, An Bangyan received an urgent report from the rear guard Wu Mi: they were bitten by Sun Jie's front army who was rushing from the west!

An Bangyan faintly felt that he was afraid that he was going to lose this big gamble.