When the moon reaches the sky, more than 30 teams of Chihu cavalry surrounded the city of Huaichuan. The darkness was like a surging flood, and under the moonlight, I wanted to destroy the city hanging in the north of Huai River.

When Meng Jie, Xu Kang and others saw this scene, their hearts were pounding again and their faces were thrusting into their throats.

"We have kept this city!"

Xu Huai peeked at Meng Jie, Xu Kang and others in a panic look, and explained calmly,

"Chihu is bounded by Yingshui and Wo Rivers, and is roughly divided into two attack directions, including the Zhennanzong Palace and the Pingyanzong Palace. Today, the cavalry of the Xuanwei Army attacked in Jiaobei, should be affiliated with Zhennan

Under the command of the Prince Zong Mansion; we had not noticed that it was in the Rushui River, and the lower reaches of the Ying River. This cavalry should have been sent from another place to support the pseudo-Chu troops to attack the Huai Shang defense line, and the number of people was only four.

Five thousand people. The army of Chihu and the east and west may be

In cooperation, but before the last resort, they will never easily ask for reinforcements from the other party. Therefore, this winter, the elite cavalry called by the Zhennanzong Prince's Mansion in the upper reaches of the Rushui and Yingshui may only be these four or five thousand.

And it is mainly used to target the Chushan Army and Zuo Xiaosheng Army. Without this cavalry to suppress the formation, Yue Hailou would not dare to easily lead his troops to the Chushan Army and Wuyang defense line. Therefore, no matter how the main general hiding behind the scenes is Yue Hailou

, or is it a foreign general

They would not easily use these four or five thousand elites of the Chihu clan to climb the city and fight for us to consume. The next thing they would really attack the city at night, trying to capture Huaichuan City before our Chushan aid troops arrived was just a rebellion

Zhong Changqing's troops who joined the Hu people were just the troops. Zhong Changqing's troops all surrendered to the enemy. They dared to slowly approach the city after they formed a formation. This meant that they could not be as fast and flexible as the Red Hu cavalry

Adjust the offensive deployment between the North City and the East and West cities.

This gives us a lot of convenience for timely adjustment and deployment. When they attacked the North City, we transferred the main force of the defenders to the North City; if they wanted to attack the East and West City, we sent more troops to the East and West City. We were on the inside and mobilized

It is much faster and more flexible than them. Are you afraid that thousands of soldiers who surrendered to the side can chew Huaichuan with a few ladders? In addition, don’t forget that there are still troops north of Huaichuan, Chushan.

, restrain other main forces of the enemy!”

Xu Huai said slowly, mainly the thoughts of the generals and officials such as An Mengjie and Xu Kang.

Next will be a bloody battle, but as long as the officials are kept in peace, the city walls will be worry-free.

And he said these words were not false.

The fighting will of the soldiers under Zhong Changqing's army is impossible to compare with the elites of Chihu clan.

What's more, these soldiers were participating in the annihilation of Xuanwei's army throughout the day and drove to Huaichuan overnight. The rest time in the middle would definitely not be too long, and their physical strength had been overdrawn.

This not only causes their combat effectiveness to decline, but also causes them to organize the speed and pace of siege to slow down a lot.

The enemy may have some large siege equipment in Jiaobi, such as siege tools, cave cars, and more stable ladder trucks with blocking facilities, but it is impossible to drag it to Huaichuan City overnight.

The soldiers of Zhong Changqing's troops could only rely on the simplest ladder to attach the city.

The defending generals and soldiers had poor combat effectiveness. The newly recruited Shangcheng Township soldiers and villages had even worse combat effectiveness. However, facing the exhausted and extremely strong combat effectiveness, they could not be considered as the strongest battle. The city walls and many of the prepared ones were prepared on the city walls.

Defensive equipment can bring great advantages to the defenders.

Although there are only 1,5600 soldiers and soldiers recruited to the village, but the enemy's attack direction is fixed and cannot change flexibly. The defenders can still form superior forces at the city wall through rapid mobilization of the inside line and suppress them.

The enemy's siege.

Zhong Changqing's troops had more than 15,000 people on the right bank of the Yingshui River, but most of the infantry were still on the Jiaobei and the line of Chaijiao.

These areas are eighty or ninety miles away from Huaichuan. After fighting during the day, ordinary infantrymen under Zhong Changqing were unable to travel all night and rushed to the city of Huaichuan to fight overnight.

Zhong Changqing's troops were able to be transferred to Huaichuan City in time to participate in the battle, which was only three or four thousand infantrymen.

Of course, Zhong Changqing's troops were about to launch an attack on the North City Wall, and Xu Huai was forced to transfer half of the newly gathered village camps to the North City Wall, increasing the number of defenders in the North City to more than 1,400.

At this time, the Chihu people would still launch a strong attack from the flanks while the troops in the east and west are empty.

Therefore, the most important thing in the battle tonight is to guard the four city gate towers.

As long as the four city gates (buildings) are not lost, even the most critical south city gate (buildings) are not lost, even if the enemy soldiers are asked to temporarily attack the city, Xu Huai is confident that after Xu Xin'an leads his troops to reinforce, he will drive the enemy soldiers away through street fighting.

go out.

The Red Hu cavalry was invincible all over the world, and it was on the open plains and grasslands. But they were equipped with light armor, light scimitars and cavalry bows. Do they dare to fight the elites of Chushan iron armor in the narrow streets and alleys?

For this reason, Xu Huai also filled all kinds of obstacles on the east and west cities as much as possible. If necessary, he could even ignite these obstacles. The limited guards only needed to defend the horse-faced wall tightly.

and key nodes such as combat equipment and corner tower.

The enemy troops killed the city and even entered the city. In the end, they could not occupy the city walls and towers in full, and could not control the entire Huaichuan City, so there was no time to decide the outcome.

Therefore, Xu Huaihe and Chen Zixiao stayed in Nancheng, taking into account the defenses of the east and west cities, and handed over two hundred guards to him to command, so that after the reinforcements arrived, they could reinforce through Nancheng as soon as possible; Xu Huai

He led more than a hundred personal guards around him to help defend the North City

The course of the war is almost the same as Xu Huai predicted.

The Chihu cavalry had encircled Huaichuan City. Zhong Changqing led his troops to form a formation outside the North City. Soon he assembled a dozen teams of troops and rushed to the North City with several ladders.

At this time, outside the North City, all occupied by Zhong Changqing's troops, there were no large number of elite archers approaching the city to snipers to suppress the city. The defenders could directly approach the battlements, use crossbows to suppress the enemy's speed, wait for the ladder to wait for the clouds to stairs

The iron hook was placed on the stacking wall, and the wood and rolling stones were rolled down one after another. A bucket of tung oil was poured down, causing the enemy to be killed or injured.

The soldiers under Zhong Changqing's troops were quite strong in combat, but the city walls were enough to make up for the gap between the two sides.

At this time, the defenders on the northern city were three or four times more dense than before, and the generals were not so panicked. In this case, the Red Guards did not use elite archers to suppress the city. If they wanted to directly attach themselves to the city and attack, they would have to pay.

A heavy price.

Zhong Changqing's troops were repelled in two powerful attacks, with heavy casualties. On the one hand, Molihu sent cavalry to force the east and west cities, and on the other hand, he transferred two hundred elite shooters to the north city position, and used strong bows to suppress the defenders from leaving the squadron, so that they could

The soldiers of Zhong Changqing's troops were able to successfully climb the city.

The enemy cannot be prevented from climbing the city, and the defenders do not force the enemy to be driven down immediately. Instead, they use the battle shed built on the horse-faced wall as a fulcrum, and use the layered obstacles on the city wall to stalemate with the enemy and entangle.

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The enemy was blocked by obstacles and was confined to a narrow space, making it difficult to rush across the city wall. In addition to the armor of the defenders, they also had small combat equipment such as shields, side vans, and iron vans.

After forcibly curbing the panic in his heart, he entangled with the enemy in Dengcheng, leaving no wind behind. He told the enemy in Dengcheng to be divided by important nodes such as horse-faced wall war sheds, arrow towers, and corner towers.

The Red Hu people climbed the city from the east and west cities, and the soldiers guarded the horse-faced walls and battle sheds, arrow towers and corner towers, and the elite defended the north tower of the city without leaving. Even if a small group of enemy soldiers rushed into the city and set fire,

Still don't care.

Molihu soon realized the intention of the defenders. On the one hand, he set fire to the city to create more chaos, causing the defenders to mobilize the city, and on the other hand, he mobilized more elite armored troops to descend to the city to cooperate with Zhong Changqing's troops to attack.

The focus is tilted towards the northern city.

No matter what, we must seize the North City Gate before the Chushan reinforcements arrived.

Only by controlling the northern city gate before the Chushan reinforcements arrived, Zhong Changqing's troops were in Jiaopi and Chaiji had more than 10,000 stairs of armor could he have the opportunity to arrive in the city and engage in street battles with the Chushan reinforcements.

In Molihu's eyes, Zhong Changqing's troops are still consumables.

Even if his 15,000 troops were exhausted, it would be absolutely worth it to only severely damage the reinforcements of Chushan and eventually capture Huaichuan City.

For this reason, Molihu directly sent a supervisory team to stand behind Zhong Changqing's army.

Molihu had also sent a messenger to inform the Yuehailou headquarters stationed in Zhenyang, Queshan, Xincai and other cities on the right bank of Rushui.

The horse and infantry under Yuehailou was larger in scale, but they only swam in the Rushui River and set up a floating bridge near Shangcai City. Even if Yuehailou sent the horse and infantry under his command in time, it would take more than 200 miles to go around as fast as possible.

We will not arrive in Huaichuan until this time tomorrow to join the war.

As the war on the northern city wall became more intense, there were horse-faced wall war sheds at both ends and were taken away by the enemy. Xu Huai's expression became colder and he ordered: "Prepare for fire attack and drive this wave of enemy troops.

Go down the wall!”

Fire attack has been the most commonly used strategy since ancient times.

A small group of enfeoffed soldiers forced their way through the weak east and west cities, and entered the city to set fire, which was a fire attack.

Small groups of soldiers set fire to ignite streets and alleys, mainly thatched huts. The fire spread rapidly, making Huaichuan City, which poured into a large number of refugees, become more and more chaotic, and refugees hiding from the sea of ​​fire everywhere in the streets and alleys.

The mobilization passages in the inner line between the North City and the East and West City were blocked by the sea of ​​fire and chaotic refugees, so they could only fight on their own. On the one hand, the magistrate Han Qiwen and other officials were more difficult to gather the brave soldiers and villages, and on the other hand, the brave soldiers and villages gathered the brave soldiers and villages.

Send it to the city wall in time.

Of course, the defenders also used fire to attack, poured large buckets of tung oil and turbulent oil down from the squat to the enemy army in the city, set fire to ignite it, and once it burned, it wrapped the ladder into the fire.

But the cloud ladder is easy to build, and burning a group of them cannot prevent the enemy from siegeing the city.

However, after the enemy attacked the city, this rough fire attack was useless.

A large bucket of tung oil and tincture oil poured out and overflowed on the city wall can temporarily curb the enemy's offensive, but it will also affect itself and ignite a large number of wooden obstacles on the city wall.

After Chihu Jianrui climbed the city, he was also good at using the ignited obstacles such as horse-rejecting and deer antlers to fly over to the battle shed by the defenders.

The rough fire attack doesn't work on the city wall, so just play with the delicate ones.
Chapter completed!