My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 110

The skylight became fierce, and rockets flew up to the city wall from below. Burning corpses and wooden shields rolled up plumes of black smoke, drifting over the city tower and blowing into the distance.

"Block the gap!"

"Gun array, push down the rebels who are coming up!"

Teams of Longyang soldiers who had received orders on the city wall rushed to support them. Arrows flew from below the city. The soldiers who had just rushed to the next section of the city wall with their comrades for rescue were suddenly hit by arrows and turned into a corpse.

At the lower part of the city wall, the Bingzhou soldiers with blades in their mouths jumped onto the wall, and then were stabbed down by a gun. With a scream of "Ah!", they fell straight from the ladder to the city wall.

Amidst the sound of war drums, soldiers from Bingzhou and Xiliang battalions, like a swarm of ants, extended up the ladder towards the city wall.

A forest of spears surrounded him and stabbed him down wildly. Some people screamed and fell, and some spearmen were hit by arrows. A veteran of the Xiliang Army grabbed the spear with a bloody hole in his body and pulled the man off the city wall. He climbed up the wall. He took the steel knife in his mouth and jumped up, rushing towards the forest of spears!

After a moment's gap, the Xiliang army on the ladder rushed forward.

A school captain who was guarding this section of the wall came over with a few soldiers as reinforcements. He just knocked over a Xiliang soldier, and he was also stabbed on the shoulder. The man had a dark face and a thick beard. He raised his hand and stabbed him again. It stabbed him in the stomach and penetrated the tip of the knife from his back.

Zhou Cang led several Xiliang soldiers and swung the Huanshou sword ferociously. After killing several people one after another, he roared at the surroundings.

"Stand firm at the top of the city!"

In the distance, Su Chen saw that 30 people from the Xiliang Army were standing on the top of the city. The soldiers trained by Dong Zhuo were fierce. The more they killed, the more ferocious they became. Compared with Bingzhou, there were fewer casualties, even though the siege was so brutal. Fighting, they are also trying their best to cooperate.

"Is this the level of a general sent by the imperial court?"

Both battalions can attack the city and fight like this, but there are still many generals on his side who have not yet come out.Su Chen frowned slightly: "Don't seize the city just because you're tempted."

The hand-to-hand fighting has been going on on the city wall for a while. Wang Chengwu stood firm on the city tower, staring at the fighting on the two sections of the city wall. He listened to the various information fed back by his commanding cavalry, and then issued orders one after another to make adjustments to deal with the two rebel groups that had boarded the city. military.

As the commander-in-chief of a governor-general and five counties, there is no need to stand on the most dangerous city wall to command, but Wang Chengwu knows the capabilities of the soldiers and horses in these places. If others do not stand here and do not give morale encouragement, the rebels will The test may directly turn into a battle to capture the city.

He also had several fierce generals who were charging into the battle. They were all sent out at this time to entangle the two rebel generals who had climbed up the city wall. They first repelled the temptation and then publicized it. The local soldiers who experienced this fight, It can be of great use.

"But these rebels are really good at fighting... No wonder the imperial court has [-] troops and the Xirong barbarians can't defeat them."

Boiling shouts of fighting rang in his ears. Wang Chengwu looked at the battlefield where the two sides of the city wall were fighting. The two groups of rebels standing on the city wall were advancing with a ferocious attitude against the gun array. He felt the will and bravery of the rebels to fight. His heart skipped a beat, and after a moment, he stretched out his hand and waved it gently in the air, "Send my order to the general to have the soldiers of the second battalion take over from the front camp. The front camp must not be reluctant to fight. After retreating, it will immediately return to the city to rest!"

The ordering soldier waved the order flag quickly and conveyed the order to both sides.

"We must hold on, at least until His Majesty's reinforcements arrive." Wang Chengwu leaned on the imperial sword in his hand and looked in other directions outside the city: "At this time, other counties must not come for reinforcements. If they are surrounded, they will fight for reinforcements. But that’s troublesome!”

After that, after receiving the order, the city's reserve troops quickly climbed up the city wall and joined the front line, replacing their previous comrades. Just then someone shouted: "Reinforcements are coming! Let's kill everyone!"

The morale of the surrounding Longyang soldiers was greatly boosted, and they also took up the tools of city defense to fight back more violently. For a while, they only had a vague upper hand.

"Su" is under the big banner.

Su Chen looked at the attack and defense on the city wall over there, and roughly got the number of archers from the information collected by the scouts. This was something he learned from military books. Combined with the ratio of archers in Yan State, he could usually figure out the number of archers on this city wall. Number of soldiers.

Six hundred archers, one thousand seventeen infantry and shields, and about 2000 spears.

Judging from the other three gates that Lu Bu explored, it seemed that the other party was deliberately concealing it, and obviously did not want Su Chen to know the truth.

Su Chen seemed to feel the cheers of Longyang soldiers coming from the city wall, so he called to Lingqi, "The temptation has passed, please send an order to the city to withdraw the troops."

Dian Wei was a little puzzled: "We have attacked the city. Just let the other generals go up directly. Otherwise, let me go. I haven't killed anyone in a long time."

"Today is just to test their will to defend the city, and the will of the soldiers to fight. They are still very strong now." Su Chen closed the book of war and listened to the sound of the drums to withdraw the troops. In his eyes, the two generals Zhou Cang and Niu Gai were coming from The ladder retreated and said: "And the other side wants to nail us here to buy time for Yanjing. Although we can also take a detour and attack Yanjing directly, it is always inappropriate not to pull out this city."

Su Chen paused and stood up from the chair: "Except for the four gates in his city, there should be about [-] troops on standby. If he forces an attack on any gate, he will have breathing time to replace himself. He can attack the city. unfavorable."

Now when we march eastward to Yanzhou, we have already cracked a hard nut in the first battle. Kitamiya finally did something right, but it doesn't matter anymore. We already know the number of troops in the city, so we can just kill them tomorrow.

"When the equipment is ready, the three gates will attack together, making it difficult for him to support his troops!"

"In addition, according to the transcripts and writings, the emperor colluded with foreigners, entered the pass, killed the people of Rongzhou, tied them to arrows, and shot them into the city!"

Su Chen spread out his cloak, put it on his waist, looked at the two battalions of soldiers and horses retreating, and narrowed his eyes: "After all, the most important thing is to attack the heart!"

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"Retreat!" "The rebels retreat!"

Seeing the rebels retreating like a tide, the soldiers still alive in the city sat down on the ground exhausted one by one. After fighting for just over an hour, they were so tired that they became limp and the hand holding the knife was trembling.

Wang Chengwu also breathed a sigh of relief.

The rebels from Rongzhou arrived in Longyang and cut off their contact with the outside world. The scouts they sent were chased by the opposing cavalry in the fields and mountains and forests.

There were actually very few troops in other counties, and he had almost transferred most of them. The number of troops in the city as reserve troops from each county was not the 3 that Su Chen had estimated, but more than [-].

However, Wang Chengwu was not too happy. That night, the rumble of horse hoofs sounded again. Just as the soldiers at the top of the city reacted, in the dark night, a cavalry with torches galloped around the outside of the city. For a moment, dense arrows were fired. The arrows flew into the night sky and fell into the city wall. Some were nailed to the soldiers, some fell on the city head, and some directly crossed the city wall and fell into the city.

It is basically impossible to attack a city at night.Wang Chengwu's confidant Colonel was running and shouting when he suddenly noticed something strange about the arrow on the ground. He picked it up and found that there was a note tied to it. When he opened it and saw the writing on it, his face suddenly changed wildly, and he immediately gave orders to the left and right, No one is allowed to pick up arrows, and all notes are confiscated.

After saying that, he turned around and descended from the city wall, galloping towards the temporary governor's mansion.

When he rushed into the mansion, Wang Chengwu had not yet fallen asleep. Holding a candle in his hand, he was looking at the map of the city and deducing the layout of the city defense. His confidant came in and took the note from the other person's hand and took a look.

His face suddenly showed seriousness.

"The enemy's strategy is to attack the enemy's heart. Have you confiscated all those arrows and notes?"

"Report to the Governor, it has been confiscated."

"I guess someone still saw it. You should immediately remove your defenses and let the third battalion go up and the second battalion come down to rest!"

After his confidants left, Wang Chengwu no longer thought about deducing the city's defense, and his face was gloomy. The message conveyed by the note was that His Majesty asked the Qi family to open the door and let the barbarians enter Rongzhou to slaughter. For him, he had already expected it, so he didn't feel anything.

But for the soldiers in the city and the people, it is a huge irony, and the will of defending the city will be greatly affected.

He looked at the flickering candlelight.

"Your Majesty, I can't hold on, but I will try my best to delay you every day to repay my kindness!"

The sky was getting brighter, and Wang Chengwu was still patrolling the tower. There was nothing strange about the soldiers and young men, which made him feel somewhat relaxed.

But on this day, the rebels did not attack the city. Judging from the information they inquired about, they seemed to be preparing siege equipment.

He knew a big battle was coming.

……

In mid-May, Yanjing was still in a tense, anxious and noisy atmosphere.

The battle reports returned from the three battlefields are not optimistic. Although the eastern and southern battlefields have suppressed the rebels, the strongest West Route Rongzhou rebels have not yet made any big moves. They are only stationed in Longyang. I heard that there have been They stayed put for two days.

In addition, civil uprisings occurred from time to time in the northwest and northeast of Yanzhou. The slaves rebelled in the snowy plains and had great intentions of going south.

The court became restless, and the people in Yanjing were also full of rumors.The fact that the emperor colluded with foreigners to kill his own people once caused great trouble to Kitamiya.

At this time, another controversy arose in the court about supporting the middle and west battlefields. Qin Xiuwen, the Minister of War, requested the emperor to issue an order for the counties around Longyang to send more reinforcements to form a cornering force with Longyang; there were also objections. The minister stood up and accused Qin Xiuwen of controlling the situation on the battlefield without authorization, which was not conducive to the military control of the three commander-in-chiefs.

Listening to the civil and military quarrels in the court, Kitamiya sat on the dragon chair, feeling dizzy.

However, he knew very well that the first thing he had to do was to stabilize the slave army and prevent the news of the rebellion from the slave slaves from spreading into the army.

After that, the emperor issued an order to replace the leader of the slave army!
Outside the quarreling Yanjing, in the Rongzhou camp on the outskirts of Longyang County to the west, the hot summer wind was howling and blowing the flags. In the Chinese army's tent, Su Chen and a group of generals were arranging the encirclement of three troops. The generals of the gate dispatched.

When Zhang Fei came here, he had not been on the battlefield yet, so he was the first to stand up anxiously.

"...When we get here, you must give me and my second brother a chance to fight. If you come first, don't fight. My second brother and I will fight at the North Gate. The other two gates are free..."

The big tent was dotted with many swords, guns, swords and halberds, full of the killing spirit of gold and iron horses.

As the commander-in-chief, Su Chen sat in the commanding position, gradually developing a calm and authoritative attitude. On both sides of the rows of seats were Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo, Zhang Liao, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Gao Shun, and Niu Gai. , Zhou Cang, Li Jue and other generals, even Qi Youhu who surrendered at Xianguan also had a seat at the bottom.

"Since General Zhang has spoken, I will naturally agree." Su Chen let the other two battlefield news conveyed to the generals below for circulation, and then continued to speak.

"The troops of Marquis Haixing and Marquis Changling were restrained at the border of Yanzhou, and my westward route was also stagnant. I'm afraid those civil and military officials in the court thought we couldn't conquer Longyang County, then they were wrong. Now the city defense is almost complete, and the equipment has been built in the past two days. Next, generals, please take care of me!"

When he said this, he raised his hands, and the surrounding generals burst into laughter. After they finished laughing, the looks on their faces became fierce and scary.

On the altar table at the head of the tent, a wisp of smoke that no one else could see floated out from Cao Cao's spiritual place and landed on Su Chen's shoulder.

Suddenly, a majestic roar resounded.

"Everyone will obey!"

Su Chen's eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a ferocious look. The moment he stood up, all the generals in the tent also stood up.

"You are all generals who have experienced hundreds of battles. No one of you can attack a city or build a stronghold without being ridiculed by the kings and ministers of such a small country. A Longyang City can block our attack!"

Su Chen raised his hand, and Cao Cao's figure behind him also raised his hand, "Today we will work hard to capture this city!"

"Yes!"

All the generals bowed their hands, then turned around and strode out of the commander's tent, heading to their respective military ranks.

"Ha ha!"

Cao Cao's figure floated out, stood beside Su Chen, and said twice: "This lineup is really satisfying to me."

(End of this chapter)