Chapter 50: Knocking the City (Part II)
Seeing that Yang Kai had no objections, Gao Yingen quickly dispatched all the troops, and ordered Yang Kai to immediately go to the east side of Shangcai, and cooperate with the soldiers of the former battalion in the same formation. Half an hour later, a feint was launched.
Yang Kai only asked people to bring the azalpa oil scavenged from the surrounding villages and towns, and after entering the camp, he quickly selected a team of 100 people with equally excellent kung fu and archery skills in Han Bin's left camp, stepped forward in advance to shoot out the enemy's torches on the city, selected warriors, and stepped forward to pour oil and set fire.
The dark night was torn apart again.
Half an hour's agreement has arrived, Yang Kai personally rode forward, holding a spear in his hand and shouting, behind him the flag ordered the official tiger flag to flip, drawing the flag, the four armies of the right battalion came out together, the cavalry lined up in front, the two wings of the foot soldiers lined up, straight straight to the city gate.
Of course, he knew that what Gao Yingen said was impossible to achieve, the guards in the city were already insufficient, and the main gate was solid and visible, and tens of thousands of Liukou were stationed outside, even if the east city gate was attacked, how could they dare to send people to help?
Take 10,000 steps back, and even if they dare, no one can adjust.
No matter how they feint outside the gate of the East City, the front is still difficult, and the flanks are still opportunities, so Yang Kaisuo insisted on his own idea, first break the city and then talk about other things, and then find an excuse that the defense of the East City is weak and the city can be broken with a light touch.
When the first hundred people raised arrows, the head of the city set up a torch to extinguish suddenly, five or six times in a row as a cover, the brave soldiers who did not shoot the torch have approached the city gate, but in a moment, the flame of the east city gate has been burning.
The messenger led the tiger flag to give the order, the yellow flag was pressed, Cao Mang shouted violently, raised the wolf stick and rushed straight forward, and the newly formed battalion of four thousand people followed closely and rushed out of the position.
The soldiers of this battalion were composed of Cai Qian, Yan Feng, Zhao Hu and a team of 1,000 people who came back from Lao Hui, and their combat effectiveness was more fierce than that of the left battalion led by Han Bin.
After the previous rewards, everyone knew that they could get a reward and a chance to face the road of the three armies, and everyone was excited, and almost in the blink of an eye, they rushed to the city unconsciously.
The guards on the city tower did not have time to light the extinguished torch again, the fire at the city gate had already caused a lot of panic, and the arrows prepared in their hands were even more too late to shoot.
At this moment, a crackling sound could be heard in the distance, and a hole collapsed in the crackling city gate.
Cao Mang slammed his stick, and the city gate with only one iron frame left shook and flew open, and the distance between thousands of rogues and the guards instantly changed from a door to a stone's throw away.
As soon as the first cavalry entered the city, the archers who followed up fired again again to cover, and under the cover of arrows, the guards on the city tower were panicked and lacked command, and could not organize effective defense and counterattack at all, and the formation suddenly became chaotic.
After Cao Mang rushed through the city gate, he took the lead in meeting the enemy's guards who had just woken up from a dream, and a powerful stick fell, and the guards who raised their knives to block them snorted, and even people flew out three or four feet away with knives.
"The city gate is broken, follow me to kill the enemy!"
"Kill, kill, kill......"
Thousands of people shouted in unison, and the power of the momentum was enough to make the faint-hearted tremble and weak. The cavalry rushed into the city, and instantly opened up the three main roads, and the infantry soldiers on both sides went straight to the city tower, and the defenders of the city saw that the situation was difficult to defeat, so they retreated sharply to the north and south sides.
Those who were unfortunately left behind, the soldiers who rushed up were stabbed and screamed again and again, and the soldiers who were provoked by spears were thrown off the city wall again, and some of them were so frightened that before the rogues came forward and stabbed them, they jumped down from the city wall, and there was a wow.
All of a sudden, the generals who broke through the city were not stopped at all, and the panicked residents of the city fled everywhere, and the lights in the dense houses turned on and out, and went out and on.
The soldiers who were driven to the flank to watch the battle, seeing the noisy scene of the fire here from a distance, quickly reported back and informed that the battalion in front of the formation had launched a feint, which caused Gao Yingen to laugh a few times and ordered:
"The whole army listens to the order, the battalion in front of the battle has created an opportunity for us, and after a quarter of an hour, launch a general attack, even if you knock your head down, you must knock a hole in the city gate for me!"
"Order!"
With Yang Kai's feint attack on the side of Dongcheng, the generals also had confidence in their hearts.
Looking at the officers and men of the Fourth Army after Cao Mang's right battalion entered the city, they did not think about stopping there, but only looked at the yellow flag around Cao Mang under the command of the flipped command, the officers and men of the four armies were quickly divided into three teams, Yan Feng and Cai Qian each led an army, and went to the south and central two areas, and Cao Mang led Zhao Hu and the newly formed first army straight to the main gate of the north city.
Yang Kai didn't expect that everything would go even more smoothly than he imagined, and he didn't even need to take Han Bin to support again, but he still quickly led the team and followed into the city.
The brothers below did not fight hard, and after entering the city, there was almost no indiscriminate killing, and the separate teams were arranged quite neatly, even if they had bad intentions and wanted to plunder goods everywhere, they could only hold back the thoughts in their hearts when they saw that the other soldiers were indifferent.
In this battle, because he also had the responsibility of the logistics director, he did not follow, and Yang Kai, who was missing the supervising army, also knew that it was difficult to test the military discipline in the battle that was easy to win, so he simply ignored this part, but the team leader quickly followed in the direction of Cao Mang.
When Cao Mang led his team to rush to the direction of the main gate of the North City, the guards had already sensed that something was wrong in the direction of the East City Gate, and had formed a team of 100 people to rush to support.
How could Liukou actually come first before they supported in front, and the army's heart was confused, and seeing that Cao Mang had not yet fought, he just ran to the rear. The offensive and defensive war is like sailing against the current, they retreat quickly, and Cao Mang and others will only chase faster.
The entire team of 100 people, driven by two teams of 1,000 people, retreated to the bottom of the main gate tower, and the guards on the city wall quickly made up for the ground when they saw this, and almost the entire guards of the main gate only gathered four or five hundred people, and after hearing a few shouts, they reluctantly sent out a triangular array.
With spear-wielding men in front and short-handed men behind, they tried to resist the crushing onslaught of the thieves' cavalry, and then intersected with their swords and axes, and their spears collided with each other.
As long as they can still have an advantage in casualties, even if it is only a little, they still have hope of repelling the enemy.
It's a pity that this kind of hope, which only exists in the possibility, was brutally torn apart by Cao Mang and Zhao Hu just a face-to-face effort.
I saw a mace flying mercilessly, a horse lance shuttling fiercely, and when its brave retreated, blood and screams flew together.
The advantage of the spear over the cavalry does not seem to exist in front of the two of them, or the team sent out retreats too quickly, making them rush too bravely, and the firearms on the city tower have just entered the cooling time through the attraction of the thieves outside the city gate, and most of them are useless, and it is difficult to turn around, and the whole row of archers, just about to turn the spearhead, was the first to be suppressed by the archers who followed the cavalry under the city.
However, in the blink of an eye, several teams of sharp-angled triangular arrays on both flanks that were even more neat than their platoons rushed in.
Like a vicious wolf opening its bloody mouth, the two rows of neat teeth bared and slammed into the wings of the guards, trying to bite them apart.
At this point, all the guards who no longer want to admit the reality can only admit that they have lost, and they have been completely defeated.
The belated but menacing main army outside the city was a mile away from the city gate, and when he saw the enemy resisting, he was suspicious in his heart, and he thought that there must be a demon when something went wrong.
It's just that before his order was issued, the soldiers in front once again sent back information:
"The gates of the city were opened."