Chapter 338: The Dust Settles
When Liu Xun heard the screams and howls of the soldiers in the distance, he made a decisive decision to retreat. Soon after he retreated, the tower was hit several times in a row, and thousands of wasps flew out, stinging the soldiers who had no time to evacuate.
of ecstasy
When he ran to the urn at the foot of the city in shock, he discovered that the soldiers had also run down without waiting for his order. There was nothing they could do. Facing the enemy, they dared to fight, but facing the wasps... it was still more important to escape. hxm
At this time, a full two thousand soldiers gathered in the small urn city, which was enough to defend the city gate.
He secretly thought in his heart that the love nest of wasps on the city wall would not disperse for a while, nor would it fly here a few feet below. Although Tian Fan's move killed many of my soldiers, it was absolutely impossible.
Without their way up the city wall, they can only attack the city gate. In this way, as long as we guard the city gate, we can ensure the loss!
He hurriedly shouted: "Brothers, the enemy is preparing to attack the city gate, but I am holding it!" [
In a siege, the balance of victory begins to tilt until the city gate is captured. The city wall can change hands several times, but as long as the city gate is held, everything is fine.
The soldiers looked scared, but fortunately there were enough people, so guarding the city gate shouldn't be a big problem. If Tian Fan had known that Tian Fan had this skill, he should have blocked the city gate earlier.
Come in, I won’t go out! And now, if the opponent hits the city gate with a ramming truck, we can’t pour kerosene on the tower and throw thunder stones to resist the enemy. This battle will be really strenuous!
Under the command of Liu Xun, the soldiers lined up facing the city gate, with the archers at the front and the rest of the spearmen and swordsmen at the back.
Seeing that there was no shield, he pointed at a small school and shouted: "Go to the military camp quickly and gather a shield!"
Just as the soldiers were quietly waiting for the ramming car to hit the city gate, and the hands holding the swords and guns began to sweat slowly, they heard bursts of shouts of killing coming from behind.
Wang Dabian and others climbed up the city wall and went down the slope on the inside of the city wall. When they finally arrived at this location and saw so many enemies here, they jumped. However, Tian Fan's order was to seize the city gate. They
Still rushed forward without hesitation
Wang Dabian and others first climbed up to the camp and took the lead with the gunmen and oars. More than two hundred large shields were hung with "whirring" sounds, and they patted Yuan Shu's soldiers. Seeing this kind of tactics, many of them had participated in the battle a few days ago.
Yu Sheng's soldiers immediately collapsed, turned around and ran inside. Liu Xun's two thousand soldiers immediately fell into chaos.
Regardless of morale, military strength, equipment and mentality, Liu Xun's soldiers were no match. It didn't last long. Liu Xun saw that it was not easy to continue fighting like this, so he immediately ran away with his soldiers. The morale of the other soldiers collapsed. In less than a quarter of an hour, Wang Da
Pancake and others have arrived at the city gate cave
Killing all the soldiers inside, they immediately opened the city gate, and dozens of people shouted in unison: "The city gate has been opened, enter the city quickly! The city gate has been opened, enter the city quickly!..." The rest of the soldiers waved.
Get down in position and prepare to defend the city gate
Tian Fan and others were only eighty steps away from the city gate. Dozens of soldiers shouted in unison, which they could naturally hear. So Pang De led more than a thousand cavalry and galloped towards the city. Wei Yan and other generals also led
The soldiers followed slowly
Indeed, as Liu Xun thought, wasps love their nests and will not disperse unless the queen bee flies away. As soon as the queen bee sees that the hive is finished, she will fly away to find a new place to build a nest, and the rest of the wasps will follow.
The queen bee did not leave. There were many wasps flying around on the city walls, but not many under the city. Even if there were some flying over, the soldiers waved their torches slightly to scare them away or burn the wings of the wasps that fell to the ground.
, then there is no threat!
So, everyone entered the city smoothly. According to Tian Fan's prior order, they led their troops to do what they were supposed to do. Tian Fan and Qu Yi waited quietly for the first to go to the camp and Tian Fan's personal guards put on their iron armor and took the handguns.
Weapons, headed for the General's Mansion
It is not yet noon. After the army gathered outside Shuxian City, it took less than an hour and a half to seize the city gate and four armies to hunt down the remaining enemies.
All the soldiers who entered the city felt like they were in a dream. Tian Fan said he would lead them to create a miracle, a legend, and he really did it.
Qu Yi was disobedient and had an arrogant personality, so he did not get along well with Yuan Shao, who was full of factions. However, his nature was such that he could not change it unless someone who could suppress him came to Xuzhou. He met Gao Shun, who was also good at training soldiers.
, after the two communicated with each other, they admired each other, and one of them could barely suppress him. But from this moment on, he admired Tian Fan from the bottom of his heart.
Not to mention Wei Yan and other young generals. They had heard about Tian Fan since they entered the military camp, and were later discovered by Tian Fan. Now they fought with him in such a legendary battle, which added a meaning to their lives.
Extraordinary memories, all this made them admire and respect Tian Fan even more
Tian Fan and others entered the city happily. They didn't know that the camp ten miles away was already filled with troops.
Among the ten groups of bandits, four groups were only twenty miles away from the main camp. After they heard that Tian Fan led ten thousand people to attack Shu County, they immediately sent troops and marched into the Xuzhou Army Camp.
The twenty-mile journey, regardless of the physical strength of the soldiers and the camping at night, only takes an hour [
The four groups discussed for a while, and three groups decided to start fighting. However, they only had seven or eight thousand people. Facing the Xuzhou Army's camp, the number was too small. Therefore, they decided to wait for a while while the fourth group, Chen Lanlei, burst out.
Decided to follow Tian Fan's path of retreat
Half an hour after entering the city, Wei Yan and others had taken control of the four gates of the city. Each of them left 500 people to guard the gates. They were leading people throughout the city to hunt down Yuan Shu's soldiers Tian Fan and Qu Yi who were still resisting and surrounded them.
In Liu Xun's General's Mansion, Liu Xun was nowhere to be seen. An ominous premonition emerged in Tian Fan's heart. Could it be that Liu Xun had escaped?
As he expected, Wei Yan captured one of Liu Xun's soldiers. According to him, Liu Xun escaped from the south gate of Shu County. Wei Yan met Pang De who was leading the cavalry all over the city and killed the organized enemy soldiers.
Wei Yan hurriedly stopped Pang De and told him at this time. Pang De pondered slightly and said decisively: "Long article, Liu Xun has been running away for almost half an hour, and it is impossible for the infantry to pursue him. General Tian attaches great importance to the head on his neck, so
, I will take five hundred cavalry to catch up and leave the remaining cavalry to your command. If General Tian needs cavalry, it will be available in time."
Wei Yan nodded sharply and said, "Okay, go ahead!"
Pang De sent out a whistle and led 500 cavalry out of the city in pursuit. Wei Yan handed over his infantry to Guan Ping, who happened to be arriving, and took the remaining cavalry to General Liu Xun's mansion to look for Tian Fan.
After Tian Fan learned the news, he could only say nothing. Since Liu Xun had already left for half an hour, the possibility of catching up was slim.
Liu Xun did escape. When the city gate was captured, he made a prompt decision and led Liang Gang and Li Feng to escape from the city. He had no choice but to escape. Fighting on the ground, he believed that he was no match for the Xuzhou army. Due to his haste to escape,
He didn't even bother to notify his family
Outside the city, in Tian Fan's army camp, the battle finally started
The other five groups of bandits finally arrived, but Zheng Bao, who played the role of Jian Dao, was still about 20 miles away.
There were more than 20,000 bandits, and they had enough strength at this time. After discussion, they immediately divided their forces into four groups to attack the camp.
They didn't know that Shu County had been captured. When Chen Lanlei saw that the flag on the city tower had been replaced by Tian Fan's handsome flag, he immediately ran away in the direction of Haoshan Mountain. He didn't even think of informing these accomplices half an hour ago that this was happening.
It’s not their fault. They and the bandits are competitors and often have frictions. This time they temporarily got together because of Yuan Huan’s words and reluctantly cooperated, but there was no harmony at all.
When they attacked the Xuzhou Army's camp, these people were clearly divided. Each force was responsible for one place and would never help the other forces, even if they were only a dozen steps away and were suppressed miserably by the Xuzhou Army.
In the camp, Hao Zhao and Liu Quan fought hard. It is true that these bandits are not strong in combat, but they have a strong will to fight! Most of them come for a simple purpose, which is food! Their
The leaders may come for money, power, or women, but they just want a bite of food. Whoever stops them is like digging up their ancestral graves. They are their sworn enemies!
At the same time, there were no archers among the soldiers Tian Fan sent out. Most of the soldiers left in the camp were archers. When the archers stopped the enemy from destroying the Juma trap, they had already shot twenty feather arrows. They were already exhausted.
Got it!
At the Qianying Gate, after paying the price of nearly a thousand casualties, the bandits finally cleared all obstacles and were able to approach the village gate.
The fierce bandit Scarface held a steel knife in his mouth, held a shield in one hand, and grabbed a ladder with the other, braving the arrows on the wall to climb up. And his men were even more brave, carrying simple small shields, and simple
The ramming car hit the village gate hard again and again. The entire wall of the village swayed again and again during the collisions, as if it would fall down at any time.
Hao Zhao's wound had burst. His face was pale. He resisted the urge to pass out and limped back and forth in the corridor on the wall with the knife in his hand. As he walked, he shouted: "Set the arrow, shoot the arrow for me."
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In the rest of the camp, except for a few timid people like Han Shun, the rest of the bandits were fighting for food. One after another, regardless of life and death, they rushed towards the village wall.
In order to clear the Juma trap, these mountain bandits and water thieves paid a heavy price, with more than 5,000 casualties. However, this did not scare them away, but instead aroused their bloodiness and hatred towards the Xuzhou Army.
The bandits were poorly equipped and only had a few bows and arrows. After shooting the arrows, they went crazy, holding knives and guns, crowding at the fence of the village wall, and hacking at the fence with spears or big knives.
Several Xuzhou Army archers in the camp kept bending their bows and setting arrows. Gradually, their arms became sore and numb [
The pikemen roared, and kept firing their guns through the fence, taking back the loot, drawing out their guns, taking back the loot. Slowly, they got tired.
The enemies kept dying, but the wood of the fence was also kept being cut and thinned.
The situation is not optimistic. Just as Tian Fan expected, if he takes too long to capture Shu County, the camp will definitely be lost.
Scarface was still one step away from the wall. Seeing that he was about to reach the wall, a Xuzhou Army archer fired arrows continuously. His hands and feet were so weak that he could not fire arrows again. His eyes were blood red as he looked at Scarface who was right in front of him.
, yelled angrily, jumped up from the wall of the village, threw himself on Scarface, and hugged him tightly. The huge momentum exceeded the limit that Scarface could bear, and he screamed and fell off the wall.
The wall of the village was not very high, but it was more than two feet. About five meters away, the two of them fell hard. The Xuzhou sergeant’s head fell on the ground, and his neck broke and he died, while Scarface fell on his back and was shaken.
His internal organs were displaced and he was in unspeakable pain. He couldn't help but scream.
Just as he was burning with anger and forcing himself to get up, holding on to the ladder and preparing to go up again, suddenly, the rear team was in chaos!
It turned out that Zheng Bao arrived. Zheng Bao's soldiers greeted the enemy with swords and guns in their hands, and shouted in unison: "Shu County has been captured, Liu Xun has been killed, and those who surrender will not be killed!"
Language is sometimes more terrifying than swords and guns! As Zheng Bao's soldiers kept shouting, most of the bandits were shaken. Shu County has been captured, and there is no hope for food. Now they are being attacked from behind. It is no longer possible to capture the Xuzhou Army Camp.
Maybe...many bandits and water thieves suddenly became desperate. They dropped their weapons and ran away.
Zheng Bao's central army, with two thousand soldiers, was guarding a large car. Liu Ye and Zheng Bao, who were smiling in the car, were watching the bandits quickly collapse. Under the car, Yuan Huan, who was tied into a rice dumpling, was
With a pale face, he finally understood why Zheng Bao was so curious, but it turned out that he was simply giving him a scare!
At this moment, hundreds of cavalrymen rushed towards Shuxian. They also shouted as they ran: "Shuxian has been captured, Liu Xun has been killed, if those who surrender are not killed, the Xuzhou army will be victorious!"
The leading general is none other than Wei Yan. There is a small school next to him. The younger brother is holding a tall flagpole. There is no flag on the flagpole, but it is holding a human head.
When the bandits saw it, they were more convinced of their words and became even more commotion.
After the knights circled the camp, the bandits were already ashamed. Wei Yan saw that there was an army of about two thousand people in the distance. He was not ashamed. He gritted his teeth and ran there with the knights.
go
When he was still two hundred steps away, his eyes lit up and he shouted: "Stop!"
As he spoke, he slowly slowed down his horse. He saw that the army had a big flag with a big "Zheng" written on it, and a man in the army was riding towards him on horseback. Wei Yan took a look,
It’s Liu Ye!
Liu Ye laughed heartily, clasped his fists on his horse and said, "General Wei, congratulations on your great achievement in killing Liu Xun!"
Wei Yan smiled and shook his head and said: "How can Liu Xun escape? Shu County has been captured. General Tian asked me to come to support the camp. I had an idea and thought of this idea."
Liu Ye asked in surprise: "What did you say? Shu County has been captured?"
Wei Yan's face was full of joy, he nodded repeatedly and said: "That's right! The entire city has been controlled, and our officers and soldiers are all over the city to capture enemy soldiers! It's a pity that Liu Xun, Li Feng, Liang Gang and other enemy generals have escaped!" Wei Wei
After a pause, he said: "Military advisor, this is not the time to talk about this. We will explain it in detail after we have driven away all the enemies!"
Liu Ye nodded and said: "It should be like this, haha, general, go quickly, I will find General Zheng immediately and ask him to help!"
Chapter completed!