In all fairness, when Yang Xuangan found out that his army was in ambush, he ordered a general attack regardless of everything. This choice was actually not stupid, and it could even be said to be quite correct. It was a calm and rational choice.
Because in Yang Xuangan's impression, the Luoyang Sui Army's melee combat ability is too weak. Usually, as long as the rebel soldiers rush to the front with knives, before the real swords and guns are used, the Sui Army troops in Luoyang have already run for their lives. It was the same when fighting Pei Hongce and Daxi in good faith, it was the same when fighting Yuan Chaoqun and Liu Ziyi, and it was the same when fighting against the Daxing reinforcements led by Wei Xuan. The habit became natural, and Yang Xuan, who was already extremely proud, felt the same way. Of course, he is also full of absolute confidence in the combat effectiveness of his team.
The more important point is that there are more than one hundred rebel soldiers who rushed to the city wall of Luoyang. Although this force is not many, it is not too small, and they are all carefully selected from the rebel ranks. Elite soldiers, who have killed the enemy and seen blood, have experience and courage, and have outstanding individual combat effectiveness. In the case of already controlling a position of a city wall, these more than a hundred elite rebel soldiers only need to hold on for a while, so that more rebels can fight. Even if the elite soldiers of the army rushed to the city wall, even if the Dongdu defenders at Shangchunmen were prepared, the rebels still had a great hope of breaking through the city gate. And considering the difference in combat effectiveness between the soldiers of the rebel army and the defenders of the Eastern Capital, Yang Xuan felt that this hope was not only great, but also very great.
Yang Xuan felt that this assumption was a pain for himself. The rebel soldiers who had rushed to the city wall were indeed elite. Unfortunately, the opponent they encountered was also the most elite patriotic army in the Luoyang Sui army. Successive miraculous victories have already established the most absolute self-confidence for every soldier of the Nationalist Army. Not only is he not afraid of the bloody close combat, but he also relies on bloody battles to earn his living and become famous. At the same time, I have long been accustomed to serving the national army with the few outnumbering the many, and this time I have taken the advantage in terms of military strength for the first time. The whole team is no longer afraid of too many enemies, but is afraid that too few enemies will not get the merit of beheading!
Fearing that the enemy's heads would not be enough, the Nationalist Army teams ambushing on the two wings of the rebel army naturally rushed faster and harder than the other. Guo Feng, who led the army in ambush on the right wing, relied on his tall legs Chief, the first one to rush to the rebel soldiers, without a word, cut down with a knife, the rebel soldiers raised their knives to block, although they accurately hit Guo Feng's thick-backed machete, they lacked arm strength, and Guo Feng collapsed on the spot with the horizontal knife in his hand. Fly, and then Guo Feng wiped out with a knife, accurately wiped the neck of the rebel soldier, cut his throat and spurted blood, and the rebel soldier also fell into the pool of blood with an unbelievable expression, until he died. I was wondering, "Why isn't this officer and soldier like the officers and soldiers I met before, who ran away when he saw me swinging a knife?"
A few rebel soldiers came to stab Guo Feng with their guns. Guo Feng did not hide or dodge. With a loud roar, he slashed at the enemy's head again. Only one spear pierced Guo Feng's chest, and it collided with the solid Mingguang armor on Guo Feng's body with a clang, and the point of the spear pierced into the armor. Guo Feng's thick-backed machete fell at the same time, cutting the enemy's head into two pieces, blood and brains flew horizontally together, and the soldiers of the Nationalist Army strode forward without fear. to meet the enemy ahead with a shiny knife and gun in his hand.
Blood and brains flew across at the same time, and on the left wing, Chen Ci, the captain of the Baoguo Army who led the ambush and rushed out from the left wing, looked the most elegant among the four captains of the Baoguo Army, but his favorite method of killing enemies was to use a cooked iron rod to give him a hand. The enemy's head was opened, and the thick and heavy iron rod was danced vigorously by Chen Ci. The rebel soldiers were injured when they were hit, and died when they were hit. In less than a moment, two rebel soldiers His head was smashed to pieces by Chen Ci, like smashing a watermelon. His movements were swift and mighty with the iron rod, as if he was possessed by his fourth brother's legendary powerful bodyguard.
The other soldiers of the Nationalist Army are not as good as Guo Feng in terms of strength, and Chen Ci who has trained in Shaolin Temple in terms of martial arts, but they are not inferior in terms of bravery and ferocity. They are all crazy from top to bottom. With blood red eyes, he rushed forward and slashed desperately. His moves were all about attacking but not defending. Even if he was hit by a knife on his body, he would greet the enemy with the knife and gun in his hand. Everyone was unstoppable and unstoppable.
In the face of such a ferocious attack, the more than 100 rebel soldiers on the city wall, no matter how elite they were, were of course unable to resist, and they did not dare to expect to continue to expand their positions. Parrying the national army's poor charge and fighting, while waiting for the follow-up team to go up the wall for reinforcements.
The rebel team under the city wall is indeed climbing desperately, but the soldiers of the nationalist army with high morale like the enemies attached to the city by these ants. For any wall section that is not covered by rebel soldiers, stepping on the ladder or Enemies who use other tools to go to the city, as long as their heads pop out of the arrow stack, the knives and spears of the Nationalist Army have already been eagerly hacking out, cutting off the enemy's head, piercing the enemy's cheek, causing one after another The enemy screamed and fell from a height of 14 meters, while the soldiers of the national defense army kept silent and continued to attack the rebel soldiers who emerged from behind the city wall. Go, directly slash and stab the ant-attached enemies in mid-air.
Relying on the cover of their comrades in the city, some rebel soldiers successfully climbed the city wall, but their climbing speed was far behind the speed of the Baoguo army's slashing and killing. The Baoguo army was like a white ocean, completely surrounded On the small isolated island of the rebel team on the city wall, they roared and smashed with knives, hacks, guns and sticks, chopping up one after another the rebel soldiers into pieces and smashing them into meat paste. What made the rebel soldiers even more terrified was the indomitable murderous spirit of the soldiers of the Nationalist Army. Several soldiers of the Nationalist Army who were seriously injured and fell to the ground all hugged and bit one before they died. The enemy, even if his shoulders were cut off, would not let go, creating opportunities for his comrades to kill the enemy, and also created the best opportunity for their companions to avenge themselves.
There are also other Sui army teams here. Although they still don't have the courage to fight the enemy like the Baoguo army, they saw that the legendary white-robed soldiers have completely surrounded the enemy who successfully ascended the city, and they are still firmly occupying the enemy. On the upper hand, these soldiers of the Sui army who died without even a pension were more courageous. In order to survive, and for the reward of some money and food left after being deducted layer by layer, these soldiers of the Sui army still rushed to the city wall shouting and howling On the side, he desperately smashed down the stone and ash bottle that had been prepared, and at the same time, according to Chen Yingliang's request before the battle, he kept shooting arrows at the solid stone bridge outside the Shangchun Gate, regardless of whether he could hit the enemy or not. Just shoot the arrowhead at the bridge deck.
The reason why Chen Yingliang made this request was, of course, because Chen Yingliang expected that when the rebel army launched a surprise attack, it would be impossible to use the loud and slow-moving trench bridge vehicles, and there was not so much time to erect floating bridges. Cross the river through the stone bridge, so as long as the defenders maintain the density of bows and arrows aimed at the bridge deck, the effect will be much better than shooting arrows at the enemy directly—shooting arrows at the enemy in the dark at a distance in the dark is not called shooting, but shooting. It's called blindness.
Chen Yingliang's sinister suggestion had a great effect. Under the cover of the feather arrows constantly falling through the air, the rebel soldiers charging across the river were hit by arrows one after another, and the neat formation was also chaotic. The soldiers pushed each other to avoid the arrows. , trampled on each other, and as a result, not only more soldiers were shot by arrows, but also several rebel soldiers were pushed down the moat. There were screams on the stone bridge. Life and death trampled to death.
At this time, Li Mi had already left behind and rushed to Yang Xuangan's side, shouting at Yang Xuangan, "Duke Chu, we are already in an ambush, why do you want to beat the drums to attack? Isn't this increasing the casualties in vain? Retreat quickly, you must retreat immediately!"
"Shut up!" Yang Xuangan, who was in an extremely bad mood when he saw his team suffering heavy casualties under the Shangchun Gate, yelled loudly, "What do you know? Why didn't the rear army charge? Take them up immediately! Rush to the bottom of the city Siege?"
"Chu Gong, are you kidding?" Li Mi said dumbfounded: "We only have one bridge to cross the river, and the officers and soldiers are shooting arrows to cover the bridge. At this time, let the rear army rush down the city, not our soldiers. Did more die?"
"Stop talking nonsense, if you tell you to rush, go ahead!" Yang Xuangan didn't listen to Li Mi's persuasion at all.
"Old general, please persuade Duke Chu." Li Mi had no choice but to turn to Li Zixiong, who had just joined the rebel army, and begged, "You have rich experience in the battlefield, please persuade Duke Chu."
"At this time, it is not appropriate to invest any more troops into the city." Li Zixiong nodded, and then asked Li Mi doubtfully, "Mr. Fazhu, why did the enemy shout your name on the city wall just now?" You laughed too early? Who is he? How did you know you would be there, and how could you have been prepared for our sneak attack?"
"That's right." Reminded by Li Zixiong, Yang Xuan, who was in a fit of anger, also woke up. He hurriedly turned his head to look at Li Mi, and asked suspiciously, "Didn't you say that your sneak attack strategy cannot be seen through by the enemy? Why would the enemy know?" How did we know we were going to attack Shangchunmen when we launched a surprise attack tonight?"
"This..., how do I know?" Li Mi almost didn't cry, he hesitated before answering: "Perhaps our army accidentally exposed clues, and the enemy guessed my trick, so I made preparations in advance .”
"Guessed your clever plan? It really is a clever plan, and it was right after being guessed!" Yang Xuangan sneered loudly, and was immediately disappointed with Li Mi, while Li Zixiong remained calm, knowing that he might soon become a rebel The team's number two.
At the same time, on the battlefield of the city wall, the Nationalist Army had killed most of the rebels who ascended the city, and surrounded the remnants of the rebel soldiers on the city wall. Greeting from the upper body, although the rebel soldiers on the city wall are elite, they are outnumbered and are always in a passive position. No matter how bravely they meet the enemy, they can't kill the siege of the national army. Struggling, dying, the rebel soldiers under the city wall said that they could not continue to rush up the city wall. Either they were blocked by their own companions, they could not find a place to stay on the city wall, or they were reported during the city. The soldiers of the national army hacked to death and stabbed them down, screaming and falling heavily from the air. Yang Xuan, who was in charge of the ant-attached battle, jumped up and down anxiously, but he was always helpless.
On the other side, the rebel army, unwilling to fail, once again resorted to the tactic of ramming the city. A team of 20 people carried a huge ram into the gate of Shangchun Gate. However, in the absence of bow and arrow cover, these heavy rams The rebel soldiers crossing the bridge also became the best living targets for the defenders' archers. Before the first log-ramping team had completely crossed the bridge, most of the soldiers carrying the logs were shot dead by the defenders' archers. The rebel soldiers dared to step forward and lift it up again, and could no longer pose a threat to the city gate. It also became a huge obstacle for the rebel soldiers to advance and retreat, giving the defending archers more and better opportunities to shoot arrows to kill the enemy.
At this point in the battle, in fact, the rebel army basically had no hope of winning. Seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers on the city wall, even Yang Xuangan had the idea of retreating in despair, but at this moment, the besieging rebels It is unknown who gave an order to the soldier's national reporting army, and they suddenly retreated in large strides during the battle to make room for a space. The rebel soldiers, who had less than 20 people left on the city wall, were stunned. The rebel soldiers in the ant-attached city suddenly found a place to stay, and jumped down from the arrow stack one after another. Put in troops.
"He rushed up again?" Yang Xuan was so surprised that he couldn't believe his eyes, and immediately shouted: "Continue to beat the drum, continue to charge! Charge! Charge!"
"Traitor!" Li Mi pointed at the Nationalist Army on the city wall and yelled, "Little thief Chen Yingliang, you are too ruthless! You are so inhuman! You can use such insidious tricks! Duke Chu, don't be fooled, the enemy is They are playing cat and mouse, they deliberately backed off, just to lure us to continue to invest troops on the city wall, so that he can expand the results of the battle, and eat our ant-attached elite soldiers one by one!"
Sure enough, when the number of elite rebels who rushed up the city wall reached more than a hundred, the soldiers of the Nationalist Army who had retreated voluntarily before charged forward with a grinning grin, and once again the tide flooded the rebel soldiers who had good combat effectiveness but were insufficient in number. The knives, axes, guns and sticks continued to greet the rebel soldiers frantically. The rebel soldiers knew that they had been fooled but had no way out. They could only bite the bullet and resist with all their strength.
On the other side, the corpses of the rebel soldiers who died from the arrows had completely covered the entire stone bridge across the river. The rebel soldiers behind could only step on the corpses of their companions and their own wounded soldiers to cross the bridge, and they were lucky enough to cross the bridge. The rebel soldiers are not much better there. With limited weapons for climbing the city, these soldiers not only cannot antagonize the city, but also have to face the sheep head stones and rolling logs dropped by the defenders all the time. Countless rebel soldiers He died tragically at the bottom of the city, with corpses strewn all over the ground under the city wall, the rebel army suffered heavy casualties, but the defenders on the city wall suffered little casualties.
It is confirmed that there are advantages to be taken. General Liu Changgong, who doesn’t like being a bastard, took the initiative to go to the city for reinforcements. He mainly rotated the archers of Shangchunmen, whose arms were already sore, and continued to cover the bridge. Arrow rain. On the Anxi Gate side, An Wendu and He Lanyi couldn't wait to send a team of archers over to grab the credit, and they went directly from the city wall to the battlefield of Shangchunmen, and poured arrows at the rebel army below the city without hesitation. , even Meng has received a lot of credit for killing the enemy, while the rebel team suffered heavy casualties under the cover of feather arrows dense like hail and raindrops, crying and screaming constantly.
Summer nights are short, the sky is already twilight at this time, and it is also at this time that Yang Xuangan finds out that at least half of the 1,500 elite soldiers who can fight under his command have already died under the Shangchun Gate , On the stone bridge across the river, corpses piled up like a mountain. The corpses of rebel soldiers were spread four or five feet high. On the city wall, there were only less than 30 rebel soldiers left struggling to hold on, surrounded by soldiers of the Nationalist Army in white robes, and might be completely submerged at any time.
A moment later, the golden gong of the rebel army finally rang, and the rebel army trapped between the city wall and the moat, as if they had received an amnesty, hurriedly fled for their lives, pushing and shoving each other while fleeing, screaming and falling down. There are countless people in the moat, accidentally falling down, screaming and crying, and being trampled by their own companions to the death. The defenders on the city wall are cheering loudly, regardless of the pain in the waist and arms after repeatedly drawing bows and arrows, they roar Shouting and continuing to draw the bow and release the arrow, the desperate bow and arrow covered the stone bridge over the river crowded with enemies, and tried their best to expand the results of the battle and increase the gains.
The worst part was Yang Xuanzong's team. They were pushed to the front by their own team, and they were the ones who suffered the most casualties. They were also the last ones when they retreated. They became the most convenient and densest targets for the Sui army's troops. At the same time, while retreating in a hurry, Yang Xuanzong couldn't meet the last soldiers who climbed the city wall, so he could only grit his teeth and leave the elite soldiers who had fought so far, and fled to the stone bridge amidst their cries for help, and merged into the rushing crowd. Their own team, as well as the last twenty or so elite rebels on the city wall, were all chopped into pieces by the nationalist army. Only two soldiers jumped off the city wall when they were desperate, and broke their legs together.
It may be retribution for abandoning the brave soldiers. While crossing the bridge, a feathered arrow whizzed down impartially and hit Yang Xuanzong's back neck from the back of the neck. The arrowhead protruded from Yang Xuanzong's throat. General Ying Yanglang's Yang Xuanzong didn't even have time to let out a scream, and was rushed down by the soldiers behind him, and his body was quickly trampled into a shapeless shape, which became the biggest gain of the Shangchunmen defenders in this battle.
Because no one in the chaos found out that Yang Xuanzong had been shot dead by an arrow, and seeing that his second brother had not returned with the defeated army, Yang Xuangan, who was so anxious that he gave up his plan to immediately return to the Jinyong City camp, sent many people to search for the whereabouts of his second brother. During such a delay, on the city wall of Shangchunmen, where the cheers shook the sky, there was a neat slogan, "Li Mimiao plans to secure the world, steal chickens without losing a lot of rice! Li Mimiao plans to secure the world, steal chickens without losing a lot of rice! Li Mimiao's plan Peace to the world, stealing chickens won't cost you money!"
The team that can shout this slogan so neatly is of course the Nationalist Army team trained by Chen Yingliang himself. Under Chen Yingliang's request and Pei Hongce's order, the Sui Army team on the city wall also joined the ranks of shouting slogans, and followed the report The soldiers of the national army shouted rhythmically and neatly together, "Li Mimiao plans to secure the world, stealing chickens will not cost you a lot of rice! Li Mimiao plans to steal chickens to make the world safe, and you will not lose a lot of rice!"
Hearing the slogan, Li Mi, the person involved, was at a loss at first, and then he came back to his senses under the strange eyes of the rebel army, and said with a wry smile: "The little thief surnamed Chen is really small-minded, didn't he just escaped under your sword?" One life, you insist on holding grudges until now, if you don’t ruin my reputation and lose Duke Chu’s trust, you won’t be reconciled, will you?”
Li Mi was smiling wryly, but Li Zixiong, who had just joined the rebel army, was smiling happily, because Li Zixiong knew in his heart that Yang Xuangan's number two rebel army would soon be replaced.