Chapter 144: Fighting behind the city
"Journey handsome!"
Zhou Huan saw Cao Shixiong riding a tall yellow-maned horse wearing armor. He was surrounded by only a dozen elite guards in the city and shouted, "He was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he shouted,
"Xu Huai's dog thieves are too bullying. Zhou Huan is going to pieces today and wants to save the two young masters for Jieshuai!"
Cao Shixiong glanced at Zhou Huan with a gloomy look, then looked at the general behind Zhou Huan, and said in a deep voice:
"This thief Xu Huai repeatedly attacked Lanzhou and bullied me Lanzhou incompetent. I, Cao Shixiong, swore to be inseparable from this thief. But in today's battle, the generals and soldiers should not think of me and my children. They were captured by Xu Huai's dog thief.
Whether life or death is their fate. Today's battle is to avenge the shame of my Lanzhou and repay the hatred of thousands of Lanzhou's slaughtered by them."
The eldest son died suddenly, and the eldest grandson asked the refugees to take him away without a trace. Cao Shixiong grew older and had many wives and concubines, so it was difficult to have a child. If the second son was in an accident, his family would be gone. How could he not hate him in his heart?
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However, he knew more clearly how dangerous it was to fight the cavalry formation with his brigade, and his two sons were completely under Xu Huai's control.
If he fought this battle with the goal of saving people, their array would be loose and chaotic by Xu Huaiyi's backhand.
At that time, don’t say that you will rescue your second son, the five thousand generals and soldiers who left the city will be very likely to fall into a place of doom.
How can a soldier act recklessly if he is a life-and-death matter?
The current situation is that we have to go out of the city to fight, and Cao Shixiong wears armor to fight, just to suppress Zhou Huan and other generals who act impulsively.
"Kill Xu Huai Dog Thief and avenge your revenge!" The first generals who left the city to line up whistle.
Cao Shixiong wore armor and left the city, causing Zhou Huan's troops to advance in a tight array. When the subsequent troops filled in the free space one after another, he ordered the city gate to close and issued a stern order to Meng Jian, who was in front of the city tower:
"The magistrate Meng Jian received our military order: In today's battle, I and the dog thieves will never stop. You can quickly close the city gate and block the gate holes with horses and antlers. Before I and the dog thieves decide to die, there is no
My order, who dares to open the city gate without mercy, kill the people without mercy, and kill the clan. If I unfortunately die in battle, I will take over as the assassin of Lanzhou, take control of the military situation, and order the defeated soldiers to Ningwu
, Lou Fan fled, and he must not open the city gate to accept the escape, so as not to avoid Xu Huai's thief having an opportunity to take advantage of. Meng Jian, do you understand?"
"JieShiShi" Meng Jian stood at the top of the city, choked and bowed to his order.
Feibi fights against the city, actively breaks away from the protection of the city wall and enters the deep battlefield to fight. Without reinforcements from the crossbow on the city, the side and back are prone to be attacked by enemy cavalry. The heavy combat equipment cannot be dragged onto the battlefield. Cao Shixiong has now ordered the city to be closed.
At the gate, the generals were injured and could not withdraw back to the city in time, and there was no way to fight in turn.
All the advantages of fighting against the city will be lost, and five thousand stairs will not have an advantage in front of more than two thousand cavalrymen.
Because the city gate is closed, once the infantry armor array is dispersed by the cavalry, the consequences are even more terrible. However, to avoid the Chushan cavalry taking advantage of the chaos to seize the city, it is necessary to motivate the soldiers to hold them to death and survive in the current situation.
Determined to go to the battlefield, Cao Shixiong had to order the city gate to close
"I have to say that Cao Shixiong is a character."
Seeing that Cao Shixiong not only dared to come out, but also ordered the city gate to be closed and killed before he could live, Chen Zixiao couldn't help but sigh.
The result they were most looking forward to was just thinking of luring out of the city first and tempting one or two thousand enemy soldiers in the city to annihilate the relatively open valley at the lowest cost.
In this way, the morale of the Qing Shun Army was sluggish and the morale was dispersed. He and Xiao Yanhan led more than 2,000 Tianxiong Army to capture soldiers, supplemented by a small number of cavalry, and stayed in Lanzhou, which was enough to deal with the Qing Shun Army; and Xu Huai
You can lead the main force of Chushan cavalry to rush to Taiyuan as fast as possible to complete the early combat target of raiding Taiyuan.
They still underestimated Cao Shixiong.
Cao Shixiong came out in a state of killing himself and then reborn. If they wanted to wipe out all the enemy troops, the casualties would be difficult to control.
Once the Chushan cavalry, who was the main force, suffered too much casualties and was unable to seize Lanzhou City, it was difficult to say that Gu Jiqian launched a large-scale army.
Then it would be difficult to achieve their early combat targets of raiding Taiyuan, and the Chushan Cavalry would have to stay in Lanzhou to entangle with the Qing Shun Army.
Once the situation in Lanzhou is delayed for three or five days, the Taiyuan enemy soldiers became alert. Xin Dai Yingshuo and Yunzhou soldiers quickly gathered to reinforce Lanzhou, and they would have to retreat back to Fuzhou in despair.
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Watching Cao Shixiong command two infantry teams at this time, moving slowly towards the south ferry crossing of the city with combat arrays, so that the troops and horses that were scattered out of the city spread along the Fenshui Valley, and still rely on the city behind him and the Fenshui on the east side as much as possible.
The river blocks the flanks, and Chen Zixiao has to admit that Cao Shixiong is a hero.
Xu Huai said lightly: "Cao Shixiong is indeed a character, but unfortunately he met me!"
Xiao Yanhan glanced at Xu Huai with beautiful eyes, thinking that she could brag again after the battle?
Xu Huai got off the horse and looked at the five or six hundred prisoners of the army lined up on the mount behind him. Zhensheng said:
"One month ago, I told you that I came to attack Taiyuan and lift the siege of Taiyuan. You nodded quickly at that time, but I know that not many of you believed it. Even yesterday, I heard that I was crying.
When the Lu Fort marched, you were still afraid and hesitant. This is human nature, and I have no complaints about you. On the contrary, your fear and worry in your heart, and some people have seven emotions and six desires, which is a good thing, which means you are not numb.
, Do you still believe me now?"
"Taiyuan has been besieged for nearly a year, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians would rather die than surrender. They have earned back all the faces that once claimed to be a mighty army but lost in Datong. They are the real ones who would rather die than surrender. The court once ordered them to be ordered by them.
The Hulu would let them go south, but they would rather resist the order and bury them in Taiyuan than give up the city to the Hulu, and would not make peace with this world, and would not give up the people who live and die together.
Among them are your white-haired parents,
My wife who is eager to return you, and my son who stands on the city wall with a gun and a spear before he is whip high. I don’t know whether it is a victory or a loss in the battle before me, and whether I have the chance to kill the city of Taiyuan, but I want to ask you now,
Are you afraid of joining me and dying in battle for your wives, children and parents on the banks of the Fenshui River. Let our blood dye the Fenshui red, let the dyed river water flow to Taiyuan, and let your wives, children and parents see, we
Fighting for them here, dying, and not being able to abandon them?"
"Not afraid, no, I'll die in the battlefield with the general!"
The prisoners of Tianxiong Army roared and screamed.
Three years of life being captured once made them numb, but they also wiped away all kinds of bad habits.
The Taiyuan military and civilians who were besieged for a year and would rather die than surrender, their parents, wives and children were truly reborn at this moment, awakening their bone marrow to deepen and unyielding fighting spirit.
This means that the use of sorrow soldiers is available.
And this kind of fighting spirit cannot be stimulated by Xiao Yanhan, Chen Zixiao and the others, but Xu Huai can.
Of course, this is mainly because Xiao Linshi had long been trying to preserve this part of his combat power for Xu Huai, and it is not forbidden to be the first time. The story of the rise of soldiers from Yantongbai Mountain in the second northern expedition was circulated among the prisoners, not just forbidden.
Use prisoners.
In order to strengthen the organization of prisoners, Gu Jiqian selected dozens of former Tianxiong Army military officers and soldiers who were attached to the prefectures after the fall of Lanzhou were organized into the third wing of the Xuanwu Army.
Although this gave the prefectures and states a certain influence on the third wing of the Xuanwu Army, these military officers and soldiers agreed from the bottom of their hearts that Xu Huai made great achievements in Shuozhou and Lanzhou.
"Okay, your mission today is to guard the small slope under Pinglan. Even if you die in battle, you will have your corpses penetrated deeply into the frozen land and cast a barrier of gold and stone, so that the enemy soldiers can break their heads and blood flow.
!” Xu Huaizhensheng ordered Xiao Yanhan and Chen Zixiao to lead five hundred days of enchanting soldiers into the pre-determined battlefield.
The cavalry directly attacked the soldiers' array that was ready for battle, with too much casualties and needed one or two combat powers to penetrate into the battlefield like steel nails, which made the Qing Shun Army unable to unfold the infantry armor array calmly.
This will create opportunities for cavalry to attack and pull the flanks.
This mission can only be carried out on the edge of the battlefield, led by Xiao Yanhan and Chen Zixiao, and the captive soldiers of the Tianxiong army led by Zheng Jinqing, and the cavalry and infantry of the Qinfeng army led by Zheng Jinqing.
When the two battalions of foot armor entered the battlefield, Cao Shixiong was silent and was not in a hurry to surround and kill the two battalions of foot armor. He knew that Xu Huai's real killer was still located outside the battlefield, but could kill with thunder at any time.
Yu Chushan cavalry.
The Qingshun Army saw that there were many people on the bank of the Fenshui River in the south of the city, but there were not many of them who could talk about elite soldiers. The Qingshun Army had lost too much blood before, and now there was only a trace of flaw.
, what we are facing will be a catastrophe.
What Cao Shixiong is doing now is to constantly send out the guards around him to see if the arrays are neat and whether there are gaps between the arrays. He wants to use shields and spears to form a wall of iron and iron walls to unfold them on the banks of the Fenshui River.
If Xu Huai really pointed his sword at Taiyuan, then the Chushan cavalry would have to hit the iron wall.
After all, the time left for Chushanqi to raid Taiyuan is extremely limited.
It will take two days at most, and Taiyuan will be ready.
It will take at least one day for the Chushan cavalry to cross Luliang Mountain to enter north of Taiyuan.
As long as they block Chushan riding on the Fenshui River for a day, they will be sure to win.
The real war is never measured by the number of enemy soldiers killed or injured, but by whether the combat intention can be realized.
They blocked and dragged the Chushan cavalry to win; the Chushan cavalry to escape in disgrace is defeat.
Because there is not much time and opportunity left for the Southern Dynasty.
Xu Huai looked at all this silently, and waited for the main force of the Qingshun Army to launch a battle formation along the Fenshui River Valley in the south of Lanzhou City, before he waved to Shi Hu behind him fiercely and hideously, saying: "You can continue the two puppies."
Take it out and slip away! Since they choose to be dogs, they must be treated as dogs and slaughtered!"
Shi Hu got the order and took several cavalry to escort the two sons of Cao Shixiong, but this time he no longer tied them to the saddle, but directly used a chain and a leather rope to snare their necks and tied their hands.
Chapter completed!