Chen Yingliang's empty city plan was not discovered by Zhai Rang and Li Mi, but was betrayed by the poor people in Gong County. They have long admired the reputation of the Wagang Army for opening warehouses and releasing food everywhere. The poor people struggling on the death line have long been looking forward to the Wagang Army. Breaking down the warehouse in Luokou and distributing the mountain of grain piled up there to the people who were about to starve to death, so just after being threatened by the government to pretend to be an army and chase them to the edge of the mountain, smart people immediately ran into the mountain to find the Wagang Army The officers and soldiers reported the news, which showed that the so-called brigade officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain were actually all civilians in disguise.
It is conceivable that Zhai Rang and Li Mi were shocked and angry when they heard the news. Zhai Rang was so angry that he cut off a big tree as thick as an arm with a knife, and yelled, "Traitor! Traitor who is a son of a bitch! A group of common people came to pretend to be the army, and the old man fell into his trick! The old man is really blind, blind!"
Li Mi clenched his hands into fists, his knuckles turned white, and it took a lot of effort to hold back a sentence, gnashing his teeth: "Traitor! You're ruthless!"
"Go down the mountain! Go down the mountain! All go down the mountain at once!" After the anger was over, of course they went down the mountain and charged immediately. The elites of the 7,000 Wagang Army all had red eyes, their footsteps were flying, and they rushed down the mountain again with thunderous roars. There are countless Wagang soldiers who were hacked to death by Chen Sangliang.
Without any suspense, in front of the Wagang elite who crawled out of the sea of blood and corpses, the county magistrate Chai Xiaohe and the township soldiers under his command couldn't even slow down the Wagang Army's footsteps, and they didn't even wait for the Wagang Army to kill them. In front of them, the township soldiers and servants in Gong County had already dispersed, and the people of Gong County, who had been oppressed by the tyrannical government, went too far. It wasn't that Chai Xiaohe ran for his life when he saw something bad, and some people even tried to capture Chai Xiaohe alive and offer it to Zhai Rang and Li Mi. As a result, in the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of local people were around the Wagang Army to help.
The next step is naturally to re-advance troops to Luokou Cang. Through the introduction of the local people on the way, Li Mi also quickly learned that Chen Sangliang had rushed to Luokou Cang in advance. The reinforcements from the Eastern Capital that were destined to come to Luokoucang in a steady stream, Li Mi quickly found Zhai Rang and said to Zhai Rang: "My lord, we have wasted too much time, Luokoucang must have made a lot of preparations." , we may not be able to take down the Luokou warehouse quickly. To be on the safe side, we should divide our troops into two groups, attack the Luokou warehouse on the one hand, and implement the backup plan on the other. If the backup plan is successful, then even if we cannot take the Luokou warehouse smoothly, we will Can be defeated."
"Success!" Zhai Rang agreed without hesitation, and ordered: "You take two thousand troops to carry out the backup plan, and I'll fight the Luokou warehouse, take down the Luokou warehouse, and I will skin the traitor Chen Yingliang with my own hands!"
"Your Majesty, be careful, if the situation is not good, please retreat as soon as possible." Li Mi agreed, and then gave Zhai Rang a word, and then went down to organize two thousand elites to act alone, and implement the backup plan prepared in advance.
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At the same time, on the side of Luokou Cang, 1,500 defenders, 1,000 Hulaoguan reinforcements, and more than 200 personal soldiers have all retreated to Cangcheng under the command of Chen Yingliang. There is no defect of the moat - the moat will accumulate water, which will cause the grain hidden in the cellar to rot after infiltration, so Luokou Cangcheng lacks this very effective means of defense. In short, in response to these weaknesses, Chen Sangliang also quickly arranged a strategy to defend against the enemy, asking the defenders to pile up a large amount of inflammable materials behind the city gate so that they could set fire to block the city gate at any time. Chen Sangliang's personal soldiers served as the supervisor team, and the supervisor team also took on the task of fighting fires and making up for leaks at any time.
"Soldiers, don't be afraid! Dongdu's reinforcements are marching towards Luokou Cang, and Hulao Pass will definitely send us more reinforcements. As long as we persist until dawn, there will be no danger! Keep Luokou Cang , I will submit to His Royal Highness the King of Yue, and I will give you double rewards! Those who retreat after the battle will be killed immediately! By the way, I will tell you that the Wagang bandits hate our government soldiers the most, even if they surrender, they will be buried alive by them! Those who don’t want to die, Let me and the Wagang thief fight!"
After letting the guards spread the words of threats and lures, there was already a sea of flames to the southwest of Luokou Cang, and countless torches rushed towards Luokou Cang like a tide. I have never seen this piece of torches denser than the stars in the Milky Way. The Luokou Cang garrison soldiers on the battlefield inevitably felt a little weak in their legs. The guard Deng Chengchun also had his teeth trembling, and said a very dejected sentence, "Chen Liushou, the bandits are huge, can we hold it?"
"If you can't keep it, I'll kill your whole family!" Chen Sangliang said coldly: "If the Wagang bandits break into Cangcheng, I'll kill you immediately, and then kill your whole family!"
Seeing Chen Sangliang's face was livid and ferocious, Deng Chengchun swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then hurriedly howled at his subordinates, "Brothers, stand up straight! If the Wagang bandits dare to come, we will fight them. Back and run away, I killed him with my own hands! Did you hear me? Stand up straight for me, and fight against the Wagang thief!"
As Chen Sangliang expected, in order to buy time, the Wagang Army really concentrated its troops in the southwest corner, and at the same time launched an attack towards the south and west of Luokou Cang. Pushed to the front, and designated a storming wall section, thinking that even if the defenders resist to the end, they can also use the corpses of the people to pile up the stairs to the city, so that the soldiers of the Wagang Army can directly rush to the wall, and the Wagang Army is behind. On the march, another group of soldiers charged the fragile barn door with chopped trees.
Four corrections, the offensive and defensive battle of Luokou Cang officially started. Under the cover of Wagang Army archers, the people who served as the vanguard strode forward carrying stones and trees, shouting and rushed to the warehouse wall, and were responsible for throwing trees and stones under the wall to build The hundreds of Wagang soldiers were divided into two teams, and they carried the bumper to hit the southwest warehouse door. Chen Sangliang immediately ordered the arrows to be suppressed, intending to use long-range weapons to cause casualties to the people in the vanguard, intimidate the people from going forward, and reduce the pressure on the warehouse wall.
Chen Sangliang's plan was well planned, but unfortunately, the order was poorly executed. It was as if the defense of Dongdu had reappeared. The Luokoucang defenders who had never been on the battlefield were so nervous that they couldn't even draw their bows. The arrows fell to the ground one after another, not only did not pose much threat to the enemy, but also boosted the morale of the enemy, causing the cannon fodder and the people to rush forward faster. After Chen Sangliang cursed, he had no choice but to order his own soldiers to serve as archers temporarily, draw a strong bow and shoot sharp arrows, which posed a real threat to the enemy.
Feathers and arrows flew like locusts in the sky, and human heads and torches surged on the ground. In order to get rid of the oppression of the tyranny and starve to death, the cannon fodder people stepped forward one after another, striding forward with bales of firewood, hoes and iron forks in their hands. Even though they were inexperienced and unfamiliar, and the charging speed was not fast, these people still showed amazing courage to attack the barn wall. The defenders on the barn wall tried their best to stop them with arrows, but they still couldn't make these civilians collapse and flee like moths to a flame. After these people rushed under the wall, they immediately waved their hoes and tried to dig the rammed earth wall, trying to dig down the wall to help the Wagang army enter the warehouse.
Relying on the cover of these common people, the echelon team served by soldiers of the Wagang Army also began to move forward. They also deliberately did not light torches to mix with the crowd, so as to avoid being discovered by the defenders in advance and lead to centralized suppression of bows and arrows. As a result, Zhai Rang's move was also very effective Until the Wagang Army's flying ladder team approached within five feet of the warehouse wall, the Luokou warehouse defenders, who were seriously inexperienced, issued a panic warning. One after another, they leaned against the warehouse wall, and the Wagang soldiers who were in battle stepped up the ladder and directly hit the top of the warehouse wall.
Cruel hand-to-hand combat unfolded on the top of the low barn wall. The defenders hacked with axes, hammered, and rammed wood, trying their best to destroy the Wagang Army's flying ladder, but they still couldn't completely stop the Wagang Army soldiers from rushing up to the barn wall. After a soldier of the Wagang Army rushed up the warehouse wall, he usually caused several casualties to the defenders. The swords and guns were thrown on the warehouse wall, and the killing sound was loud. The battles at the West Gate and the South Gate were also fierce. The Wagang Army's ramming wood knocked the barn door loudly, and the defenders on the wall tried their best to smash rocks to stop them, but with little effect. Avoiding incoming stones, even if you are hit, as long as the injury is not serious, you will not retreat. Occasionally, someone who is killed in battle will be replaced immediately by someone later. The morale and fighting spirit are far better than that of the defenders on the city.
To Chen Sangliang's relief, the royal team sent by Pei Renji performed well, tenaciously carrying the frontal battlefield of the south gate. The number of times the Wagang army was able to rush up the warehouse wall of the south gate was obviously much less, but the west gate On the battlefield, Deng Chengchun's team kept Chen Sangliang in fear. Deng Chengchun, who didn't know how to become the guard of Luokoucang, didn't know whether he had trained the army. His subordinates said in front of the Wagang Army that they could only be described as a mess. The morale and fighting spirit were even less skillful. The soldiers of the Wagang Army rushed to the warehouse wall many times, and each time they had to pay several times the number of casualties to kill the enemy. Chen Sangliang was forced to visit the Ximen battlefield in person and personally command and supervise the battle. Also ready to wipe Deng Chengchun's ass at any time.
"When we go back, we must replace all the defenders of Luokou Cang! Especially this Deng Chengchun!" This was Chen Sangliang's idea that was gnashing his teeth in his heart.
Zhai Rang, who has rich experience in the battlefield, also quickly discovered the weakness of the west gate of Luokou Cang. For this reason, Chen Sangliang didn't realize that the Wagang Army had dispatched more elite troops to the west gate until the reserve troops of the Wagang Army rushed to the city wall. Liang could only order Ying Yanglang of Jishan Prefecture to dispatch the reserve team led by Zhang Jixun immediately to reinforce the Ximen battlefield.
Chen Sangliang was very surprised by the performance of the reserve team under Zhang Jixun's command. It was also a second-line army. Although the five hundred soldiers brought by Zhang Jixun also had the weakness of serious lack of battlefield experience, their fighting will was no less than that of any first-line elite. The whole army went up to death, and even after being injured, they stuck to their posts and never retreated. There were even tragic and heroic scenes of seriously injured soldiers hugging Wagang soldiers and rolling down the barn wall to die together. Zhang Jixun himself took the lead in killing the enemy with his sword Leading the soldiers to firmly withstand the impact of the Wagang elite, the performance on the battlefield was completely different from that of his colleague Deng Chengchun.
"Talent! Unexpectedly, there can be such a talent in this farting Luokou warehouse!" Chen Sangliang was very pleasantly praised—of course, if Chen Sangliang could know that Luokou warehouse was taken down by the Wagang Army in history Later, Zhang Jixun led these hundreds of people and was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Wagang troops on the adjacent platform for more than half a year. Not a single soldier surrendered, and the entire army was wiped out until the water source was cut off. Chen Sangliang must not be so strange .
At this time, Zhai Rang had also discovered that the west wall of Luokou Cang had suddenly strengthened its defenses. He guessed that Chen Sangliang must have joined the reserve team. Gritting his teeth, he simply ordered a full-scale attack, and personally led the army to launch a charge. The key target of the attack was still the Ximen of Luokou Cang, which had not performed well before—even if there were reinforcements, those flesh-footed soldiers before were still a huge loophole.
The battle of offense and defense has become fierce, especially on the west gate of the Luokou warehouse. Hundreds of flying ladders are continuously built on the warehouse wall, and Wagang soldiers continue to climb up the ladders. They also directly climbed the warehouse wall with bare hands and climbed the wall with human ladders. The slogan of "killing the Luokou warehouse and eating his mother" kept coming and going, and the people under the warehouse wall continued to dig. The completed earth wall, some sections of the wall have even been dug out nearly a foot deep. The defenders on the wall yelled, but there was nothing they could do.
If Zhang Jixun's army hadn't performed so well, and if Chen Sangliang hadn't brought more than two hundred experienced Qiao Peng veterans, Luokou Cang would have been breached by the Wagang Army just like in history. In this way, Ximen is still in danger. The powerful Wagang elites continue to rush up the barn wall, causing casualties to the defenders. However, the supervisory team had no time to find out the obstacles, and all of them had already swung their knives into battle, fighting bloody battles with the Wagang elites who were constantly on the wall. Chen Sangliang himself also swung his knives to kill the enemy under the protection of Sangouzi and Yuchi Jingde There is no longer any free hand to direct the battle.
The west gate was already vulnerable to the Wagang army. Fortunately, the defenders lit the fire inside the gate in time to prevent the enemy from entering the warehouse.
A large number of people have gradually spread towards the North Gate and East Gate. The defenders in that area are howling ghosts and wolves, and are in a hurry. The people lacked siege weapons, so they had to dig the barn wall desperately and couldn't directly attack the barn. It was not difficult to deal with. The Hulaoguan soldiers distributed on these two battlefields also played the role of the backbone in time, and there was not much for the time being. Danger.
Zhai Rang also committed suicide by himself under the warehouse wall, and was less than a hundred steps away from Chen Yingliang's handsome flag. Unfortunately, the two bamboo ladders next to Zhai Rang were knocked down by a wooden ring one after another. The chance to kill the enemy with a sword in person.
The sky was gradually getting brighter, and just as the dead bodies under the wall were gradually piled up half a person high, and the fragile wall was about to be dug through by the people, at last Chen Sangliang's long-awaited and familiar military song sound came from the west. The officers and men of the national army fluttered their white robes, rode Dawan good horses, and charged directly at the back of the Wagang Army in a charge formation. The defenders of Cangcheng cheered and cheered, and the morale of the Wagang Army was greatly drained, helping the Wagang Army to attack Luoyang. The people in Kou Cang were also frightened and fled one after another as their wills weakened. The pressure in Luo Kou Cang suddenly dropped.
Of course, Zhai Rang also sent scouts to scout the direction of Dongdu. At the beginning, he heard that there were not many reinforcements from Dongdu who arrived. When it came to those iconic white robes, apart from yelling at the scouts for their incompetence and failing to report clearly, Zhai Rang had no choice but to issue a retreat order, and organized the army to retreat to the way they came. There are few armored soldiers coming here with light armor. If you go head-to-head with heavy cavalry like the Baoguo Army on the plain, you will die in vain. Of course Zhai Rang understands this truth.
The Baoguo army wanted to launch a chase, but was stopped by the soldiers sent by Chen Sangliang with a password. Chen Sangliang asked the soldiers to tell the Baoguo army that the road conditions in the direction where the Wagang army fled were very poor, and it was not suitable for serving the country at all. The heavy cavalry activities of the army were also too close to the mountains. Once the Wagang army fled into the forest, the Baoguo army would have nothing to do with them. Instead of chasing them in vain, it is better to ensure the safety of the Luokou warehouse.
It was also when he was watching the main force of the Wagang Army flee far away that Chen Sangliang suddenly realized that something was not right, that is, the number of Wagang Army troops fleeing south was obviously a bit small, it seemed that there were only more than 4,000 people. In the meantime, although the soldiers sent by Chen Sangliang did not find out the strength of the Wagang Army, when they met Zhai Rang and Li Mi, Chen Sangliang had preliminarily concluded that the strength of the Wagang Army was about 6,000 to 8,000. In between, although the Luokou Cang defense battle last night was fierce, the Luokou Cang defenders with insufficient combat power could never have caused such a large number of casualties to the Wagang Army, and most of the corpses under the city were ordinary people in ragged clothes. So Chen Sangliang immediately concluded that part of the Wagang Army had disappeared!
"Where did those Wagang troops go?" Chen Sangliang was thinking in his mind, but after a while, Chen Sangliang's face suddenly changed slightly, because Chen Sangliang suddenly remembered that last night's fierce battle in Luokou warehouse, he never I have never seen Li Mi or his flag, and yesterday's attack tactics were rigid and rigid, completely using the lives of the common people as cannon fodder, and did not take advantage of the Wagang Army's individual combat strength to display any small group of elite harassment attacks The flexible tactics of looking for breakthroughs in other battlefields is definitely not Li Mi's style of using troops!
"Could it be...?" Thinking of a certain possibility, Chen Sangliang's face immediately changed, and he shouted: "Come on! Hurry up to Hulao Pass, and when you meet our reinforcements, tell them to come back immediately." Hulao Pass, there can be no delay! Hurry up! Hurry up!"
When the soldiers who were already covered in blood promised, Yuchi Jingde suddenly pointed to the east and said: "It seems that there is no need to stay behind. There is an army from the east, which should be sent by Hulaoguan to reinforce us." .”
Turning his head at a flying speed, Chen Sangliang immediately saw that the road leading to Hulao Pass in the east was full of dust and smoke, and there was indeed an army rushing towards this side. He galloped down to the city and rode his horse to meet the support army in person. Unfortunately, several warehouse doors were blocked by inflammable objects, and Chen Sangliang couldn't get out at all. When he finally moved the blockage and rushed out of the warehouse , The Nationalist Army has come to the south gate to assemble and wait for orders, and at the same time the reinforcements from Hulao Pass have also come nearby.
When he took a closer look at the situation of the reinforcements at Hulao Pass, Chen Sangliang's face was not pale, but completely ashen. The main flag of the reinforcements was, surprisingly, the flag of Pei Renji's Henan envoy for arrest! What made Chen Sangliang grit his teeth even more was that the number of reinforcements Pei Renji brought definitely exceeded the 3,000 reinforcements he requested, at least around 5,000!
With a gloomy complexion, Guo Feng, Chen Ci, Zhao Yu and other generals of the Nationalist Army had already come in front of them to salute, and reported the time and route of the army's dispatch, indicating that the army never delayed the slightest time. Then, Pei Renji's familiar face quickly appeared in front of Chen Sangliang, and he asked very anxiously: "Nephew, didn't the Wagang bandits enter Cangcheng? Did Zhai Rang and Li Mi go there?" ?”
"Father, the Wagang bandits are running there." Pei Xingyan hurriedly pointed to the direction confirmed by the Wagang Army, and then said: "Stay behind said that the road at that location is not good, and it is very close to the mountains, so it is not suitable for reporting to the National Army. We didn't let us catch up."
"Okay, I'll go after it." Pei Renji immediately said, "I've brought the elite from Qi County. They are all good mountain fighters. I'll go after it myself."
"What are you chasing after?" Chen Sangliang, who has always had a hypocritical image of respecting the old and loving the young, yelled at his elders for the first time since time travel, and he still yelled with a livid face: "Who told you to come? Who told you to bring such an old man?" How many troops are here? Didn’t the messenger I sent tell you clearly that it’s enough to tell you to send 3,000 troops, but you can’t come! Why didn’t you listen?!”
Seeing Chen Sangliang so angry for the first time, all the generals of the Baoguo Army were shocked. Pei Renji was also completely stunned. He didn't know how he had offended this distant nephew. But Liang yelled again: "What are you still doing? Go back to me right away! Go back and stick to the Hulao Pass! Outside the main force of the Wagang bandits, you dare to leave your post without authorization. Are you crazy or stupid?"
He had some conflicts with Chen Sangliang at first, but when he was yelled at by Chen Sangliang in front of so many people, Pei Renji's face turned dark immediately. Seeing that the situation was not good, Qin Qiong rushed up and said, "Chen stay behind, Marshal Pei heard that the two thieves Zhai Rang and Li Mi led an army to attack Luokou Cang in person, and that you came to rescue Luokou Cang with only two hundred people. He was worried about your safety, so he personally led the army here Rescue, he also has good intentions. Also, we have made sufficient arrangements at the Hulao Pass, and the Wagang bandits outside the pass, whether they attack by force or sneak attack, are impossible to endanger... "
"The main force of the Wagang thieves outside the pass, you have taken precautions, what about the ones inside the pass?" Chen Sangliang roared hysterically, "Haven't you ever thought that the Wagang thieves who detoured to the back of the Hulao Pass might come from behind? Sneak attack on Hulao Pass?!"
Hearing this possibility, Pei Renji's darkened face immediately turned pale, and Chen Sangliang yelled again: "Pei Renji! What are you still doing in a daze? Why don't you go back soon? If Hulaoguan is safe and sound, I kowtow to you Apologize! If something goes wrong at Hulao Pass, how will you explain it to His Majesty the Emperor?!"
Pei Renji didn't dare to delay any longer. He turned his horse's head and yelled, ordering the troops to return to Hulao Pass immediately. Luo Shixin, Qin Qiong and other generals also hurriedly followed with pale faces. The front team rushed back towards the way they came. Over there, Pei Xingyan saw that the situation was not going well, and hurriedly cupped his hands to Chen Sangliang and said, "Chen stay behind, please allow the last general to lead an army to serve the country to assist father."
Guo Feng and Chen Ci also took the initiative to invite Ying, expressing their willingness to lead the army to help Pei Renji, but Chen Sangliang shouted with a livid face: "Don't go, leave them all to me! A group of Wagang bandit elites suddenly disappeared. I can't guarantee whether they went to Hulao Pass or ambushed near Luokou Cang, the Nationalist Army has only four regiments, and all of them must stay to ensure the safety of Luokou Cang!"
Seeing Chen Sangliang so fierce and rude for the first time, Guo Feng, Chen Ci and other generals did not dare to persevere, and hurriedly sang promises, but Pei Renji's face turned paler, and he asked in a trembling voice: "Stay behind, will Hulaoguan pass?" Is it really dangerous?"
Chen Sangliang lowered his head, and said weakly: "I hope my guess is wrong. I would rather kowtow to your father to make amends and plead guilty than to be imprisoned by Wagang bandits."
In the afternoon when Shen Shi was about to arrive, when Dongdu light and heavy infantry rushed to Luokou Cang for reinforcements one after another, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin and other generals also returned to Luokou Cang with the unconscious Pei Renji. The remnants of Hulao Pass were defeated, and He Yanyu, who was wounded on his body, told Chen Sangliang in tears that Pei Renji had left for about an hour. The main force of the Wagang Army outside the pass suddenly launched a strong attack on the front of Hulao Pass. When Ximen sent a messenger to warn Pei Renji, suddenly there were about 20 bandit soldiers ambushing on both sides of the city gate. They killed the guards and opened the gate. During the melee, gunpowder bottles were used to help open the east gate of Hulao Pass and welcome the main force of the Wagang Army to enter the city. Complete control.
"The ambassador originally wanted to counterattack and take back Hulao Pass immediately, but the Wagang bandits closed the door tightly. We have no siege weapons, so there is no way to take back the city." Qin Qiong also reported to Chen Sangliang dejectedly: "Wagang The gangsters were still shouting in unison on the city, thank you Ambassador Pei for giving us the pass, Ambassador Pei was so angry that he vomited blood and fell into a coma on the spot, we had to retreat, the Wagang bandits took the opportunity to pursue them, but luckily Brother Luo Shixin led the army and killed them."
Chen Sangliang was silent, looking at Pei Renji, who was still unconscious with blood on the corner of his mouth, Chen Sangliang suddenly sighed, and said, "Uncle Pei, your hind legs are dragging me to death. Hulaoguan was occupied by the Wagang bandits, which means that the tactical initiative of the eastern capital battlefield was handed over to the Wagang bandits. The Wagang bandits can attack when they advance, or defend when they retreat. "
Hearing Chen Sangliang's words, all the generals of the Sui army were silent, but after Chen Sangliang was downcast for a moment, his heart suddenly moved, and he hurriedly shouted: "Quick, let me out immediately, just say that I caught Zhai Rang's dog." Thief! Said that I captured Zhai Rang alive! The more people know about this news, the better, and the speed must be fast, we don't have much time!"