In the inner city of Yanling, Gao Ba, the restraining envoy of Hailing Town, was already looking at the city hurriedly and in vain, and the army of grass thieves who surrounded him was like a banner of forest. There was also a wave of chills in my heart.
As one of the chief figures in response to the call of Zhou Bao, the ambassador of Zhenhai Jiedu, who came to discuss the army of the Three Routes of Thieves; the chief convenor of the 23 towns and soldiers in Taizhou. He still doesn't quite understand how his subordinates suddenly, defeated and defeated in this city.
Compared with Dong Chang, who cares about and cares for the country and is eager to eliminate thieves; or Zhang Quan, who wants to help Zhenhai Li, he belongs to the kind of compromise and balance of both; Because the fineness under his command is more complicated than the two, the corresponding demands and thoughts are also more.
Therefore, after the division of troops in Changtang Hubei, he immediately went north to attack the occupied Yanling City; however, he wanted to take this requisition and then use this to respond to Zhang Quan’s tribe, who was rushing to help Dantu. Also waiting for the opportunity to mix up a feat of subordinate to the rescue.
However, this journey became the beginning of his disaster and nightmare. First, they encountered repeated harassment and sneak attacks day and night, sometimes a burst of random arrows shot from the river, sometimes an ambush for a small group of baggage, and at night it turned into throwing arson oil bottles and constant noise. Sound harassment.
However, in the face of such troublesome walks and stops, it always takes a lot of time to guard and march against the enemy. Although he has many tribes and a large lineup under his command, he still can't catch the opponent's coming and going like wind or the evidence of advance and retreat, and he can't effectively deter and counteract it.
Although he also quickly figured out a way to set up an ambush, and used the heavy squad as a bait, he wanted to wipe out some of the thieves who attacked; but these thieves did not think of killing and capturing at all, and did not hesitate to consume arrows and equipment. There are enough mules, horses and boats to travel.
Although successfully repelled several times, it made the opponent more cunning and concealed; even in turn, he ambushed and attacked the soldiers who had been rushing to chase the soldiers despite orders; and piled hundreds of heads on them. To the roadside. Soon this annoying team quickly became mentally exhausted and slowed down in a short period of time.
But then more bad news spread. Because under the unscrupulous mutilation and ravages of these thieves, the powerful households, squires and subordinates along the way, most of them died and fled, but they were no longer able to provide any assistance and assistance to these officers and soldiers.
Although he then indulged his subordinates in the places along the way, he liquidated and slaughtered the mud legs who took the opportunity to occupy these farms a few times; he avenged and vented his anger for these unfortunate rural pillars and the home of Jishan. But it still failed to improve the troublesome situation that he has nowhere to raise money, but can only divide his troops and privately looted his troops.
Later, he had to decisively abandon those troops whose morale and fighting spirit were already unusable; instead, he had to rely on those Zhuangzi as a step-by-step camp, and set up fortifications and police posts along the way, and also suppressed those restless. Mud legs.
At this time, it finally didn't become completely blind and deaf, and it also improved the marching process of his subordinates, and gradually compressed and eliminated the continuous harassment activities of those thieves. It's just that after he arrived at Yanling City with some tired and disorganized troops, he was less than half of the original troops.
Despite this, he still separated a fresh force from the tens of thousands of people under his command, and launched an attempt to attack the city gate with the wooden platoons and long ladders that were temporarily prepared. As a result, he did not see the hard fight and perseverance that he expected; the thieves on the front of the city just hurriedly shot a few rounds of arrows, and then abandoned the defense one after another and fled before the battle with the official army.
As a result, they were also motivated and followed the city gate that was unexpectedly taken down. They found the discarded grain, grass, and heavy money scattered all the way along the street and sporadic overturned vehicles.
So at this moment Gaoba was no longer able to restrain and contain it. These town soldiers and leaders of the soil regiment who advanced into the city personally led their subordinates to compete with each other for their gains, and even spread to the city's wanton plundering.
He could only send his cronies to live in the gate of the city, and personally led the team from these chaotic soldiers to forcibly drive out and open a way for the gangsters. He went straight to Yanling City, which was relatively small. Away from the city.
However, when he easily seized and occupied the empty inner city, only to feel that something was wrong, the city gates that had been guarded by cronies suddenly rose to the sky. At the other city gates, there were sudden killings, as if there were thousands of troops and horses coming out together. Suddenly, his left and right subordinates were shocked, and they were shocked by each other.
The other town soldiers and native soldiers who were scattered in the city looting property were even more embarrassed. Under the group of dragons without a leader and fighting each other, they were almost driven out from various cities and towns in defeat. Everyone with disheveled clothes or carrying large bags, and like a flock of pigs and sheep in a panic, was washed away and chopped down on the streets one after another.
Suddenly, screams and screams, and endless begging for mercy, screamed in this small city; corpses falling down, falling to the ground, blood flowing from the ground, and scattered again The incoming goods are intertwined; but no one is bent down to inspect and pay attention;
These thieves, who suddenly came out and gathered in the street, are arranged in an array of swords and guns, with bows and crossbows centered. They stepped on without hesitation; they gathered from all directions like a rolling iron current. , The inner city with the last resistance.
At this time, Gao Ba discovered that everything in the inner city was not good; not only the door bolts and rollers were damaged, but even the water channels and wells in the inner city were also blocked. This is clearly the rest of the layout, please enter the dead place of the urn.
However, he did not show any frustration, and instead pretended to say cheerfully to his subordinates:
"These grass thieves were caught by me. As long as Dong (Chang) Badu got the quasi-trust, it will be the time of their demise..."
Seeing his vowed attitude, coupled with the promised rewards, finally settled the somewhat floating hearts of his subordinates for the time being.
It was only when he drove his subordinates to use all their strength to congest the doorway of the inner city with the earth and rocks temporarily found to temporarily block the enemy from outside. When he began to work hard to deploy defenses on the low and narrow city.
"No. No. No.. Okay, the town will be... in the office... in the office..."
Another subordinate who was in charge of searching the prefectural government rushed over and stammered and shouted.
"What's wrong in the office? Didn't I ask you to take someone to remove some materials for use..."
Gaoba couldn't help but shouted angrily:
"The edge of the room and the pillars of the inner office were stuffed with firewood, and a lot of grease was paid..."
"what,"
Gaoba couldn't help but grabbed the opponent sternly, but his heart sank like an ice cellar.
However, it was the drum noise outside the inner city and the rebels calmed down, and fell into an uncomfortable brief silence; then there was a dull rustling sound. And at the watch positions, they couldn't help screaming.
"Heaven..."
"There is something in the sky..."
"Be careful, the grass thief's stone cannon..."
Only then did Gao Ba see many things with burning smoke trails, tracing arcs over their heads, and one after another falling into the inner city buildings, bursting into fragments, splashing large sparks, and then turning into transpiration. The flames and smoke came up.
In Waiguo City, special catapults and crossbows are on the side. Su Wuming, a general from the Second Army and Gaozhou master, also sighed in relief, turned his head and said to the two fighting volunteer leaders standing beside him:
"It's so good, the overall situation is settled..."
As his voice fell, he saw a crash in the inner city gate. It was the doorway that was originally blocked. It was torn down and turned over from the inside out, and many figures were rushed out holding group cards and baffles; and they tried their best to rush toward the array and defense line guarded by the rebels. Kill it.
"Come just right..."
Su Wuming couldn't help but shouted.
"Except for the appearance team and the fire throwers, the brothers will kill the enemy with me..."
As his voice curled up, it turned into a fierce whistle. Suddenly, on the roof near the inner city gate, beside the wall, many rebel soldiers with crossbows and bows stood up; at the moment when the whistle stopped abruptly, wave after wave of arrows followed. Rain and arrowheads covered and submerged the officers and soldiers who rushed out of the city gate.
Moments later, this desperate back-to-back counterattack and breakout operation, with the corpses lying on the floor and a crawling figure moaning a little bit of pain, was declared a complete failure.
However, at the other end of the inner city, the only north side without a city gate and closest to the outer city wall. The easy-to-pretend Gaoba and dozens of diehard soldiers used the smoke from the city as a cover; everyone covered their mouth and nose with wet wipes, cautiously but not daring to come out from the wall. The rope slowly descended one by one from the crenellation.
"We deserve such credit..."
And the escort team Yuhou Li Jiuer, who was crouching not far away, draped all over, holding knives, guns and crossbows, replied to his attendant Wang Yan.
"I'm afraid I'm not hitting a big fish... ready to whistle..."
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Under Dantu City, the preliminary preparations and project layout for the siege of the city have been completed seven or eighty-eight;
In front of the five city gates facing west, southwest, due south, southeast, and east, there are many earth platforms and watchtowers that are almost close to the city wall, and their criss-crossing trenches and grids are connected in one. The wall cascaded deeper and deeper into the front of the defenders.
And before some of them were exposed in the pits and fortifications, some corpses had been scattered and felled that had not been cleaned up. Some were small groups of investigators and messengers who wanted to rush out of the city, and some were deliberately released. Fugitive.
Of course, for Zhou Huaian, who was sitting in the besieged camp and brought the flag out to show his face from time to time, sometimes his subordinates showed unexpected ability, which is also a rare trouble and trouble.
For example, because of the unplanned transitional performance and results, the expected enemy was beaten away; the result was that the intention to lure the enemy to deepen and bring it down, then gather and wipe them out, or break them separately. (End of this chapter)