The world of counterfeit magistrates competes in the world

Chapter 480
In the end, Lu Zhan left [-] troops from his headquarters to garrison the camp, and the remaining [-] Mingzhou troops went out to besiege the city.

At this time, above the county city, the Hengshan Army had already properly arranged the city defenses, and was waiting for the arrival of the coalition forces. The 15 allied forces surrounded the county on three sides, and various siege equipment were assembled slowly.

On the other hand, a large number of scouts went south to inquire about the marching distance of the Hengshan army. After learning that the Hengshan army had gone farther and farther, they finally relaxed and began to prepare to attack the city.

This time, all the coalition forces wanted to take down the city and make contributions. They did not have the same perfunctory as last time, and they all tried their best to launch a fierce attack.

Among the coalition forces at this time, Fang Desheng divided [-] troops to attack the south gate and east gate respectively; Lu Zhan led [-] soldiers and horses to attack the north gate, and another [-] soldiers and horses lay in ambush towards the west gate.

After an hour of bombing, the top of the county wall was in a mess, and all kinds of defensive equipment were scattered.The siege equipment of the coalition forces also lost most of them in the bombing of the defenders.

The power of the equipment is getting smaller and smaller, and what follows is a direct contest.The siege soldiers and horses of the coalition forces began to charge down the city against the rain of arrows.Among them was a group of dead soldiers, holding explosives and rushing towards the city gate.

At this time, on the east gate battlefield, human lives were constantly being harvested during the charge, but it still couldn't stop the powerful advantage of the sea of ​​people.A group fell down, and then a group of people came and quickly filled the vacancy in front of them.The wave of charge spread unstoppably down the city, and soon reached under the city wall.

Immediately, the Hengshan defenders ignited the twisting rope, and after a few silent counts, they stood up and threw the explosives in their hands down the city.

There were loud bangs, and puffs of gunpowder smoke rose into the sky, and the surrounding area was filled with a strong smell of sulfur.At the foot of the city at this time, the soldiers of the coalition army under the city wall fell down, and the sound of wailing resounded across the battlefield.

At this time, the few remaining dead men rushed to the gate of the city with explosives in their arms, and stacked the explosives on the door panel.But this amount of explosives is not enough to blow open the city gate. They must wait patiently for the comrades who escaped the bombing to deliver the explosives.

Fierce explosions came and went, endlessly.The charging soldiers were blown to pieces and could no longer get close to the city wall.

Many ladders on the top of the city were quickly blown into pieces by the explosives, and the soldiers wandered around the city, avoiding the bombardment of the explosives in a panic.

Finally, after a period of painful suffering, the dead soldiers finally sent enough gunpowder, and the accumulated gunpowder reached half a person's height.

As the rest of the dead men retreated, the dead man who was in charge of lighting the fire knuckle took a deep breath, lit the twisted rope in his hand, and then evacuated immediately.

The twisted rope burned out quickly, and there was only a huge boom, and a huge mushroom cloud spread over the city wall, billowing into the sky.

"Oh! The city gate is broken, the city gate is broken!" The Yanzhou army couldn't help cheering.

Fang Desheng was overjoyed when he saw this, he was the first to break through the city, and he won the first victory in this battle.Joyful in his heart, he immediately pulled out his saber and swung it forward, "Go into the city!"

"Kill!"~
The entire Yanzhou Army mobilized and launched a general attack on the broken city gate.

The next moment, the smoke cleared from the city gate, revealing an empty hole.However, in this hole, a heavy roar sounded from it.Numerous cavalrymen filed out and charged towards the chaotic Yanzhou army.

"It's cavalry, why are there cavalry?"

"The cavalry is coming, run!"

Seeing this, the generals of the Yanzhou Army were in chaos, and the momentum of the original charge was stagnated, and the entire army formation became even more chaotic.

Fang Desheng stared dumbfounded at the gushing cavalry, his face pale, "How could this be? Didn't it mean that the main force of Hengshan has already gone south? It was Lu Zhan, Lu Zhan misled me!"

Before he could make a decision, the Hengshan cavalry had already entered the formation, setting off a bloodbath.When [-] cavalrymen rushed out of the city, a mass of Hengshan infantry followed behind, taking advantage of the chaos of the Yanzhou army, they rushed forward and bit them fiercely.

Seeing his own army being ravaged wantonly by the Hengshan Army, Fang Desheng finally came back to his senses. Immediately, he pulled his horse away and shouted sharply: "Quickly, tell the whole army to retreat, retreat!"

The army in the rear was ordered to abandon the comrades in front immediately, and followed the general to escape.However, where the infantry could outrun the cavalry, they were bitten all the way by the cavalry who came up, and finally broke up and fled in all directions.

At the same time, although the other two gates did not break through the city gate, they fell into it with the east gate.The other two gates were opened immediately, and the cavalry was the vanguard to attack the coalition forces.

The coalition forces, who were caught off guard for a while, were frightened by the Hengshan army's ability to turn beans into soldiers like a magic trick.Didn't it mean that when Hengshan's army went south, there were only [-] defenders in the city?How could there be so many enemy troops out of the city to attack at this time?
At this time, Lu Zhan finally realized that he was just caught in the trick of the Hengshan Army.They did not lead the main force to the south, but disguised the people in the city as troops and left the county, while the army hid in the city.The purpose is to attract himself to lead his troops to break away from the protection of the camp.

With remorse and hatred in his heart, Lu Zhan gathered his troops to defend and block the attack of the Hengshan cavalry, and at the same time gathered the rout soldiers who fled back, and ordered them to retreat slowly without panic.

Under Lu Zhan's dispatch, the army quickly stabilized, making it impossible for the Hengshan Army to defeat the opposing army for a while.After all, only [-] soldiers and horses can go out of the city to fight. If they can't take advantage of the chaos to defeat the enemy, they can only stand in a stalemate.

Fortunately, the southeast sides that the Yanzhou army was in charge of had been defeated by the army, and there were routs all over the mountains and plains.Now the reinforcements from the two directions are coming, as long as they gather together, they can easily eat up the Mingzhou army.

However, Lu Zhan, a wise general of Mingzhou, was not stupid. When he heard that the Yanzhou army was defeated, he knew that he could not stay here for long, so he immediately led his army to retreat slowly.

In this battle, the Hengshan Army wiped out more than [-] soldiers from the Yan-Ming coalition forces, took [-] prisoners, and suffered more than [-] casualties.

Fortunately, the Yan-Ming coalition forces who escaped back to the camp had less than 8 people left, and after joining the camp with 3 people, there were only about 11.Among them, the Mingzhou Army still has more than [-] people, while the Yanzhou Army has less than [-] left in this battle, and suffered heavy losses.

Fang Desheng saw that the famous Mingzhou army suffered very little casualties, while most of his own soldiers and horses were lost, his suspicion instantly turned into anger.If it wasn't for the collusion between the Mingzhou Army and the Hengshan Army, why the disparity in losses between the two sides?In other words, did Lu Zhan deliberately lure himself to lead the army to die?

At this time, Fang Desheng had been blinded by anger and humiliation, and he was full of doubts about the conspiracy of the Mingzhou Army.But he didn't expect that if it wasn't for his narrow mind, he would always oppose Lu Zhan.Even if they disobeyed orders and led the whole army to attack without authorization, they would not end up in the current situation.Maybe he knew the reason in his heart, but could he say it was his fault?He could not bear the crime of losing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in World War I.

Therefore, after Lu Zhan led his troops back, Fang Desheng pinned all the blame for this battle on Lu Zhan.Lu Zhan had a hard time saying this, who made him the main general.But he is not a person who is willing to compromise. He immediately reprimanded Fang Desheng in front of everyone for disrespecting orders and being self-righteous, which led to today's disastrous defeat.As the chief general, he must be responsible for this, but as the lieutenant general, how can he get away with being so disobedient to Shangfeng?

The quarrel between the two instantly detonated the scolding between the two armies.The Mingzhou Army felt that it was the Yanzhou Army's refusal to obey orders that led to the defeat of the battle, and the Yanzhou Army was most responsible.The Yanzhou Army believed that it was because Lu Zhan, the chief general, fell into the enemy's tricks, which caused the Yanzhou Army to suffer heavy losses, and Mingzhou had to give Yanzhou an explanation.

Seeing that an internal strife was about to break out between the two armies, Fang Desheng saw the large number of soldiers in Mingzhou, and knew that if there was a conflict, he would suffer a big loss, so he stopped the impulse of his family.

After mediation by the generals of both sides, the entire army calmed down, but the relationship between the two sides dropped to freezing point.But one day, Fang Desheng took the remaining [-] people across the Longjiang River on the grounds that the army had suffered heavy losses, and returned to Yanzhou to recuperate.

Lu Zhan looked at the empty camp, where was the might of the 20 troops that day.Now there are only 7 horses left, how to confront the Hengshan Army?As a last resort, he had to order the whole army to cross the river and withdraw from Jiangxi County.

(End of this chapter)