Chapter 369: Fighting Puyang Again (12)
March 14, early in the morning.
The coalition army began to attack the city before dawn, and only 300,000 coalition troops left outside the city attacked the city extremely fiercely, under the constraints of the supervising team, they went forward and attacked the city head one after another, as long as the offensive was slightly frustrated, the reinforcements of the rear team were immediately put in, and they were eager to take Puyang immediately.
Zhuang Shaoyou was shocked, what's wrong with the coalition forces? It's so crazy, generally speaking, if the coalition forces still carry out the previous strategy of exchanging injuries for injuries, then now is definitely not the best time for a decisive battle!
If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!
Something must have happened!
There's no time to think about it, no matter what happens, Puyang must be held, the crazier the coalition forces, the more important it shows to block!
"Someone! Pass on my military orders! Take out all the remaining oil bombs, 300 each in the south and east of the city, and send the rest here! ”
Huang Zhong, who was fighting bloodily, was overjoyed when he heard the news, and he was finally going to use fire oil bombs! But when he heard Zhuang Shaoyou's distribution plan, he was suddenly a little depressed, so that the two city gates were more than his own!
After a while, the tower carried twenty boxes of fire oil bombs to the city, Zhuang Shaoyou urged the soldiers to repel a wave of attacks by the coalition army, stabilize the position at the head of the city, and then began to distribute fire oil bombs!
Zhuang Shaoyou ordered: "All the fire oil bombs, throw them all under the city, throw them a little loose!" ”
The sturdy soldiers in the city held a fire oil bomb and threw it to the ground fiercely, and two hundred fire oil bombs fell to the ground, killing not many coalition troops, but the deterrent effect was very good!
I don't know who exclaimed: "It's a fire oil bomb!" Run! ”
The soldiers of the coalition army were stunned for a moment, but soon came to their senses, and no longer cared about the threat of the warlords, they began to desperately scatter and flee, this thing, everyone in the west of the city had seen it that day, it was very terrifying! As long as it is stained, it is a charred corpse, and the death is very miserable!
Zhuang Shaoyou smiled, this is what he wants!
Huang Zhong saw that Zhuang Shaoyou had not made any further movements, and asked strangely, "General, do you want to light the fire?" ”
Zhuang Shaoyou waved his hand: "Don't worry!" I see if any of them would dare to attack here! It only takes tens of thousands of people to fill these fire oil bombs, even as long as 5,000! But who wants to be a ghost with 5,000 deaths? ”
At the same time, Sun Guan in the south of the city and Bao Xin in the east of the city both received Zhuang Shaoyou's summons, and both of them were dazzled and immediately ordered to execute!
The ballista on the firing table retreated partly and replaced it with the catapult battalion, and hundreds of rounds of fire and oil shells were successfully projected by the catapult battalion to a distance of 500 paces in front, and the catapult battalion quickly retreated, and the fire and crossbow battalion hurriedly followed, and before the formation was completely set up, they could not wait to carry out a covering salvo.
The timing of Bao Xinxuan's choice was very good, it was when the reinforcements of the coalition army arrived, and hundreds of fire oil bombs were ignited by the fire-filled crossbow arrows, although only a small number of explosions occurred, the momentum was very amazing! And the fire oil is on fire, spring is the windy season, the wind helps the fire, and the east of the city is full of fire!
Caught off guard, more than 3,000 people of the East Road Coalition Army were killed in the fire! After that, the ballista battalion and the fire crossbow battalion took the opportunity to shoot fiercely, and the originally neat coalition phalanx collapsed in an instant.
And the south of the city also retreated.
The offensive of the three-way coalition army suffered a setback, and the morale of the coalition army was suddenly greatly reduced!
The south and east of the city did the same, throwing the remaining fire oil bombs evenly under the city!
The coalition army panicked, and the warlord team desperately killed the retreating soldiers, but the coalition soldiers were annoyed and angry, and the resentment accumulated over the past few days finally broke out! I don't know who took the lead, and the rout swarmed up, slaughtering the sparsely numbered Overseers!
The coalition forces were in chaos.
The three-way coalition forces quickly made corresponding countermeasures.
After Yuan Shao of the Western Route Army urgently consulted with the princes, he immediately ordered the whole army to retreat, and the princes and Haoqiang went to appease the defective soldiers and isolate them, and they must not let this situation spread!
The Eastern Route Army, only Gongsun Chan is a big prince, after getting the scout's report, Gongsun Chan immediately thought of the fire oil bomb that made Yuan Shao's Western Route Army suffer a big loss a few days ago, and thought that this was it! It's really a shame that Zhuang Shaoyou is so calm, this kind of good thing is actually held back to use at this time!
didn't have time to think about it, Gongsun Zhan immediately ordered that all the heroes recall their soldiers and horses, and each restrain his subordinates; Those who dare to disturb the morale of the army will be killed! Then lead the army back five miles, and begin to wait and see, watching the movements of the other two roads, and then make plans!
And the Southern Route Coalition led by Yuan Shu is bloody and abnormal! Hearing that the forward troops rebelled and destroyed the team sent to supervise the war, Yuan Shu was furious, the team was all the elite of Yuan Shu's lineage, and they were Yuan Shu's heart! It was wiped out by a group of damned miscellaneous soldiers!
Ignoring everyone's dissuasion, Yuan Shu sent out the Tiger Ben Army, which had been hiding in the snow for the past few days, and was ready to kill all the forward rebels to set an example!
Liu Biao heard the news and persuaded bitterly: It is not appropriate to make a big move at a very moment, so as not to give Zhuang Shao's army an opportunity to take advantage of! Even if you want to be punished, you have to wait until the battle is over!
When Yuan Shu heard this, there was some truth, and he hesitated again and again before he calmed down his anger, and just when he was about to give the order to calm the matter, the Tiger Ben Army couldn't wait to rush forward and avenge the dead brothers of the battle team.
After three major battles, Yuan Shu's 20,000 tiger army was left with more than 10,000 people, and there were more than 10,000 remnants of the retreating forward. When the two armies saw each other, they were all red-eyed, and the Tiger Army was very arrogant and domineering on weekdays, bullying others, these small and strong soldiers were not strong enough to support the mountain, they were always bullied by the Tiger Army, and the supply of food and grass was controlled by Yuan Shujun, making it difficult in every possible way, and accumulating a lot of grievances!
When the enemy meets, he is very red-eyed, and he doesn't need to say much, just start fighting!
The Tiger Ben Army is well-equipped and strong, although it is a bit domineering, but its combat effectiveness is indeed not low! The remnants of the soldiers who had retreated were already physically exhausted, and once they came into contact, they were quickly at a disadvantage. But those soldiers were not good at stubble, and immediately sent a small group of men and horses to the big camp to ask for help, this coalition army was complicated, and under the call for friends, the entire Southern Route Army camp was in chaos.
Yuan Shu and Liu Biao jointly pressed it, but they couldn't control it, and in the end they were swept into it in a daze, and then they were completely messed up.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Biao found an excuse and led more than 10,000 remnants to the south without saying goodbye.
Knowing the movement of the coalition army on the South Road, Gongsun Chan and Liu Bei discussed for a while, left the infantry, and the two quickly went east with iron horses, preparing to find an opportunity to quickly cross the river and retreat north, anyway, those infantry are not Gongsun Zhan's headquarters, let them fend for themselves!
Under the pressure of many reasons, the coalition forces that were united before collapsed and became chaotic!
And Puyang City was still on guard, ready to deal with the next round of attacks by the coalition forces, but after waiting for more than an hour, there was not a single coalition army.
The scouts sent out to report back to the city like a marquee, and the content of the report was disorganized, and there was no clue.
Although the coalition army was in chaos, Zhuang Shaoyou did not dare to attack rashly, after all, the enemy was outnumbered, the coalition army was still 250,000 horses, and there were only 50,000 tired remnants left in the city, and even Tai Shici's cavalry corps was also greatly reduced, and the soldiers were physically and mentally exhausted.
Just when Zhuang Shaoyou was hesitating whether to attack hard, the scout came to report! Ink Thirteen is back! And bring back an important piece of news, and an important person.
It turned out that the night before yesterday, because of his anxiety about the battle situation, Mo 13 concealed Hu Sanniang and quietly led two teams to the vicinity of Baimajin, waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack the coalition army. But the coalition forces are very well guarded, there is no chance to take advantage of it, after lurking for a day and a night, still not finding a chance, Mo 13 decided to take a desperate gamble! In the middle of the night, he led the fleet to prepare to land southward, but halfway he encountered a coalition naval division, which was the Yellow River Gang of the Weijia family in Hedong, and its commander was the Wei family's father-in-law and first heir, Wei Kai!
After a fierce ideological struggle, Wei Kai finally made a decision!
What Wei Kai doesn't know is what kind of huge impact his decision will have on the pattern of the world!
Empty words, Mo Thirteen naturally doesn't dare to be gullible, but if he doesn't enter the tiger's den, he will get the tiger? The coalition forces are attacking fiercely, Puyang is in danger, and the sailors can't play any role at all except blocking the waterways and transporting supplies, so Mo 13 decided to take a gamble!
Leaving the main force on the ship, he personally led a battalion of 500 dead soldiers, changed into the coalition suit that Wei Kai obtained, and under the guidance and cooperation of Wei Kai, Mo 13 led his troops to successfully break through several defense lines of the coalition army and arrived at the small mountain col thirty miles south of Baimajin, where the grain camp of the coalition army was located!
Mo 13 was immediately overjoyed, and finally believed Wei Kai, with Wei Kai's cooperation, Mo 13 led his troops into the grain camp in the name of mobilizing military rations, because of the presence of the Wei family, those difficulties were naturally easy to settle.
After an hour of tossing, the coalition camp was on fire everywhere, and it spread extremely quickly, and the more than 10,000 defenders of the battalion had no time to put out the fire!
After the successful arson, the identities of Mo 13 and others were also exposed, and they retreated all the way to the river, and in the end, after the 500-person death squad successfully burned the coalition army's grain camp, most of them were strangled by the coalition army, and Mo 13 was seriously injured, and finally hid in Wei Kai's tent, and after a day of coma, he finally returned to the fleet with the help of Wei Kai, and all the 500 dead soldiers who went with Mo 13 were killed! No one survived!
The grain camp was on fire, and most of the grain and grass were burned, and the princes from all walks of life suddenly had no idea, and tried their best to suppress the news, and decided to make a desperate bet and immediately attack the city with all their might, as long as Puyang was taken, it was still a victory!
That's why there was the crazy move of the coalition forces during the day today.
After getting the news, Zhuang Shaoyou didn't care about anything else, and immediately ordered:
"Tai Shi Ci! You lead 10,000 cavalry to chase down the retreating Western Route Army! Sun Guan, you led the main force of the Third Army out of the city to attack the South Road Coalition Army! Bao Xin, order you to lead the main force of the Fifth Army out of the city to attack the East Road Coalition Army! Hu Sanniang, send a sailor to strengthen the river blockade, and the coalition army must not be allowed to cross the river! ”
"Wait!"
As soon as Zhuang Shaoyou's military order was issued, he was interrupted, and everyone was surprised, and after following the prestige, they found that it was the military advisor Tian Feng!
Tian Feng saw everyone's surprised eyes, and knew that he was a little out of shape, but he didn't care about it, and hurriedly saluted and explained: "General! The Western Route Army has collectively retreated westward! Its main force is still nearly 100,000! If you chase it, you may not be able to get a bargain! Our army's vitality is greatly damaged, and it is powerless to pursue the three-way coalition army! It's better to let Yuan Shao and others cross the river!
The general is angry!
The princes of the Western Route Alliance have a good relationship with Yuan Shao on the surface, but now the situation is critical, if we continue to chase after them, they will definitely unite to resist the general! If they are left unchecked, there will be a split within them! Then I'll break them all by then!
The headquarters of Gongsun Zan on the West Road are all Youzhou iron horses, and now he is like an arrow, it is better to let him go! If it is not allowed to cross the river, it will be difficult to recover, and the land of Luxi in Qingzhou will not be peaceful! Pay for one's whistle! It's better to let it go! It can also effectively contain Yuan Shao, this plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf! But there are still more than 30,000 Yanzhou and Youzhou Haoqiang in the Eastern Route Army, these people are the meat on the general's chopping board, and the general can cut it as he wants! They are cornered and have no choice but to surrender to the generals!
The Southern Route Army is suspected of having infighting, and his subordinates think that the general should gather forces to eliminate the Southern Route Army in one fell swoop! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! In this way, the strength of Yuan Shu, Liu Biao and Yuzhou Haoqiang can be greatly weakened. After our army recovers, we will immediately send troops to take Xuzhou and Yuzhou, and then Tusili and Jizhou, and the world will be decided! ”
Tian Feng's words, everyone couldn't stop nodding, Zhuang Shaoyou stroked his hands and praised: "Sure enough, the military advisor has a vision!" General Ben was so vengeful just now that he lost his mind! Fortunately, I was reminded by the military advisor, otherwise I almost made a big mistake and harmed the lives of the soldiers in vain! ”
When Tian Feng heard this, he was both relieved and moved: "The general has the world in mind, and his bearing is very accessible!" The subordinates are fortunate to be able to follow the general Jiwei and show what they have learned, and there is nothing else to ask for in this life! ”
All the generals around shouted in unison: "The general is wise!" ”