Chapter 891: Night Attack
In any case, Sun Li won this battle, which is the consensus of the people of Liangshan.
It doesn't matter whether Su Ding is a real defeat or a fake defeat, the important thing is that he not only failed to capture Sun Li like Li Kui, Yang Xiong and Shi Xiu, but also returned to his own formation after fifty rounds, this is a sign of admitting defeat, otherwise why don't you dare to fight again?
"Sun Tizhi won a complete victory, what is the crime?" Even Song Jiang had to praise it, and secretly complained in his heart that Li Kui and Yang Xiongshi Xiu were too uncompetitive, and they actually made the characters outside the faction show their big faces.
Complaining is complaining, but Sun Li is also a figure on Liangshan, and he has found one for himself and pulled back the gradually declining morale, which is not a bad thing.
When a battle came to an end, Song Jiang ordered the whole army to set up camp, and sent people to inform the three five tiger generals in the east, west, and north to set up camp first.
In the evening, after dinner, Chao Gai and Song Jiang summoned Lin Chong, Qin Ming, and Dong Ping to discuss the plan of the night attack on Zengtou City with Gongsun Sheng, Guan Sheng, and Hu Yanzhuo.
It must be attacked overnight. The people of Liangshan did not have time to fight with Zengtou City, if the supply of military rations to Tong Dashuai's army was delayed, then no reason was enough to avoid the crime of delaying the military aircraft, so the battle of Zengtou City must be resolved quickly.
Sun Li was excluded from the meeting. Although he defeated Su Ding and found a place for Liang Shanbo, Di Yong Xing is Di Yong Xing, and the order of the Heavenly Book cannot be changed, so he still can't enter Liang Shanbo's power core.
Not to mention that Sun Li was even more dissatisfied with Song Jiang and the others, but only that Chao Gai and Song Jiang proposed to attack overnight, and the other leaders naturally would not object. After the meeting, Lin Chong, Qin Ming, and Dong Ping returned to their respective camps and began to arrange a night attack.
After a while, suddenly, drums sounded in all directions, and with the same shocking shouts of killing, the Liangshan army launched an attack from all sides at the same time, attacking the four large camps in the southeast, northwest, and northwest of Zengtou City at the same time.
The outer edge of the camp was a simple wooden fence, and the attacking side only had to lift a large felled tree to break it, and the defenders did not have much advantage in terms of location.
Under such conditions, the best defense method is naturally to block the enemy with bows and arrows.
In the east, west, north and south, behind the fences of the four large battalions in Zengtou City, there were 1,000 archers in each of them to resist the enemy from a distance. Each thousand archers were divided into two divisions, one for diffuse fire and one for attacking distant enemies, and one for flat fire, which specialized in shooting enemies who rushed close to the fence.
For a while, I could only hear the sound of dense sharp arrows breaking through the air in the dark, and the sound of "poof" arrows entering the flesh came and went, and the screams and angry scolding of the arrows were endless.
The Liangshan army did not fail to consider that Zengtou City would use archers to defend this fragile fence, so before the sergeants carrying the giant tree, there were more than a dozen people holding shields to shield the soldiers carrying the giant wood behind them from the rain of arrows.
However, the shield can only block the incoming arrows in front of them, but it can't block the diffuse shooting that falls from the sky, this kind of arrow rain is too powerful, especially those soldiers who carry the giant tree, they can't free a hand to hold the shield, so they can only hope that the rain of arrows falling from the sky will not hurt themselves.
But then again, how could a thousand archers hold back the charge of 30,000 men? After all, a giant tree had reached the fence, and the fence had collapsed in a single collision, so the first small echelon entered the wall.
With this gap, it doesn't matter if the other giant tree teams can attack the fence or not, they just need to mobilize their soldiers to focus on attacking this gap.
Outside the gate of the Liangshan Army Camp that had just been set up, Song Jiangzhi was complacent, but he had more disdain for Zengtou City, touched his beard and lost his chin and said: "With such a defense, you dare to fight against the officials and troops of the Great Song Dynasty? ”
All the leaders agreed, even if you have a Su Ding in Zengtou City? With such a weak defense, how can you resist the onslaught of thousands of troops?
"Brothers with horses are ready, and when the gap widens a little more, they will all rush to the gap with my ironclad horses. Hu Yan Zhuo gave the order.
Hu Yanzhuo's iron-clad chain horses are still very powerful, this tactic comes from the "Wujing General Essentials" compiled by Zeng Gongliang in the Great Song Dynasty, and Zeng Gongliang's inspiration for compiling the "Wujing General Essentials" came from the Hetuluo book.
Although this tactical method was stolen by the Tangut people and created an iron harrier to come out and suffered too much for the Great Song Dynasty, the iron-clad chain horses trained by the Great Song army under the painful experience were not very vain.
Even if the Great Song Dynasty does not produce horses, the power of Huyanzhuo's ironclad chain horses cannot be underestimated.
When Hu Yanzhuo followed Gao Yu to conquer Liangshan, if it weren't for the fact that Shuibo Liangshan had the advantage of a water network and captured Hu Yanzhuo in the water, then Hu Yanzhuo would have been able to defeat Liangshan with only the sharp weapon of the iron-armored chain horse. Because Xu Ning, who knew how to hook and sickle and was good at training hook and sickle troops, never went up the mountain.
Hu Yanzhuo did not surrender to Liangshan alone, but with his chain of horse knights who had been captured in the water. And after going up the mountain, he began to train some new soldiers, although these recruits are not as familiar with the battle formation as the original chain horse knights, but after riding the chain horse, they are also quite powerful, just by relying on the impact of the iron armored war horse, it is enough to defeat any enemy army in the wilderness.
At the same time that Song Jiang sneered at Zengtou City and Hu Yanzhuo ordered the preparation of the chain of horses, the second batch of 2,000 death squads had arrived at the gap in the enemy camp under the leadership of Sun Xin, Bao Xu, Yu Baosi, Gu Sister-in-law and others.
"Lian Horse, follow me!" Hu Yanzhuo immediately made a decision and led the Lian Ma to rush up.
It is conceivable that as long as these 300 chain horses rushed through the wooden fence, then the defenders of Zengtou City could only scatter as birds and beasts, and then a large number of infantry could follow the chain horses and rush into Zengtou City, and Zengtou City would be finished.
What is the use of personal force no matter how high it is? The reason for determining the victory or defeat of the war depends on the strategy of the general, and the disparity in the number of troops, Song Jiang sneered and thought of this, so he turned his face to look at Su Yuanjing beside him, "Captain Su, you should always rest assured now, right?"
When Yang Xiongshi Xiu was captured in the afternoon, Su Yuanjing's face was ugly for a while, and he didn't care much about Song Jiang.
At this moment, even Su Yuanjing was relieved, of course he could see that Su Ding alone could not stop the attack of Liangshan's 60,000 army.
He praised him: "General Chao, General Song, you really fought a beautiful battle, and when you turn back and meet the official, I will definitely ask you for credit!"
Listening to Su Yuanjing's praise, Chao Gai couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile: "Thank you Taiwei Su!"
The voice did not fall, only to hear a "whoosh" sound that broke through the air, and a feather arrow hit the face door of Chao Gai.