Chapter 324: Wancheng was attacked [two in one](1/2)
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The bright red blood spurted out from Peng Tang's neck. He looked disbelief and staggered back two steps while covering his neck, but in the end he fell to the ground due to excessive blood loss.
This scene shocked the Qin soldiers accompanying Peng Tang.
The cavalry under General Hu Yu attacked General Peng Tang?!
However, before these Qin soldiers could react, they saw Cao Chun raising his arms and shouting: "Kill in!"
Hearing this sentence, the Qin soldiers who followed Peng Tang out of the city realized that the other party was not the cavalry under General Hu Yu's command, but the other party was the Wei army!
After realizing this, the Qin soldiers ran into the city while shouting: "Close the city gate! Close the city gate! These are the Wei army! They are going to attack the city..."
But as soon as he said this, five hundred Fangcheng cavalry rushed behind them, and several Fangcheng cavalry picked up long spears and easily penetrated the backs of these Qin soldiers.
What?
Is it the cavalry of the Wei army?
The Qin soldiers inside the city gate were shocked and quickly pushed the city gate, trying to close the city gate.
However, how could Meng Hu and Cao Chun allow them to do that? They saw the two pointing at the city gate at the same time and shouting in a deep voice: "Kill in!"
Under the order of the two, the dozen Fangcheng cavalry who rushed in the front simply rushed straight towards the two slowly closing gates without reducing the speed of the war horses' sprint. At the end of the day when they were about to hit the city gate, the dozen Fangcheng cavalry suddenly pulled the reins, causing the war horses to hit the city gate horizontally.
There was a loud "boom" sound, and the slowly closed city gate was knocked open a little again.
It was clearly visible along the crack of the city gate that behind the city gate were several Qin soldiers holding the door bolt to try to close the city gate. However, the collision of the door just now caused several of these Qin soldiers to be knocked to the ground, and the huge door bolt that they raised together also fell to the ground.
"Quick! Close the city gate!"
It could be seen that a anxious voice from a Qin general came from the city gate.
Outside the city gate, the cavalry of the Fangcheng City did not weaken the strength of the horsepower to hit the city gate. With the continuous impact of dozens of Fangcheng Cavalry, the Qin soldiers behind the city gate finally could not hold on, so that with a loud bang, the two city gates were finally knocked open by the Fangcheng Cavalry.
"I broke open the city gate!"
"Kill in!"
"Whoa whoa!"
Seeing the city gate open, five hundred Fangcheng cavalry cheered and rushed in under the leadership of Meng Hu and Cao Chun.
On the other hand, the Qin soldiers near the city gate had a look of earth.
"Hurry, hurry up and show your warning to the city. Some of the Wei cavalry have entered the city!"
“Yes, yes…”
Under the urgent urging of the Qin general, two Qin soldiers rolled and crawled to the city wall and told Tong Ze on the city wall about the Wei army's killing into the city.
The Qin soldiers on the city wall also looked at each other: It was not General Hu Yu's cavalry?! It was the cavalry in Fangcheng?!
In panic, they immediately sent a warning to the city. After a moment, the jingle of the copper bells hitting the wall sounded.
Unfortunately, even though the early warning message was issued on the city wall, the Qin soldiers in the city were still unable to stop the attack of Fangcheng cavalry. They were pitiful to those who walked out of the house to check the situation because they heard the warning sound. Before they could figure out what was going on, they saw a cavalry rushing towards him...
However, this warning sound also attracted the attention of the Qin soldiers in the Qin camp outside the city. Many Qin soldiers rushed outside the camp and looked at Wancheng, which was only a short distance away from them.
"What's going on? Why are there fighting sounds coming from Wancheng?"
"I don't know, Wancheng seems to have been attacked."
"Attack? Who? Wei army? How could they bypass General Bai Qi's army and sneak attack the rear?"
"Can General Bai Qi be defeated by the Wei army?"
"How could it be..."
Countless Qin soldiers looked at each other, unable to understand.
And at this moment, a soldier suddenly exclaimed: "Quiet! Quiet! It seems like there is a sound in the distance..."
When the Qin soldiers heard this, they gradually became quiet and listened in a vague way. They could hear it, and a sound that seemed to tremble the earth came from a distance.
As the reason why the earth was trembling, an army gradually appeared in the distance, an army headed by cavalry, followed by countless infantrymen, these people were roaring and shouting, rushing towards this side.
Seeing this, several Qin soldiers who were quick to react shouted at the top of their throats: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Enemy attack?
Wei Jun?
Is it really the Wei army that attacked my Wancheng?
Why didn't you receive any warning?
The Qin soldiers were panicked. Although several Qin generals immediately stood up to command the formation, unfortunately, time was still too hasty. Before the Qin soldiers could finish the formation, the cavalry in the distance had already arrived.
"I am Hua Hu, the most powerful general in Fangcheng!"
A young cavalry general shouted loudly and waved his long spear to lead the Qin army's array.
He danced his long spear in his hand and led a team of cavalry to rush left and right in the Qin army's array, and instantly ruined the already unstable formation of the Qin army.
At this time, Wei general Tang Zhi had just led three thousand infantrymen to rush here. Seeing that Hua Hu and his cavalry had already ruined the formation of the Qin army. Even Hua Hu himself was killing and killing in the hinterland of the Qin army formation. Even Tang Zhi couldn't help but praise: It's a real warrior!
After praising him, he also waved his arms and shouted loudly: "My soldiers in Yecheng should not be defeated by Fangcheng's robes and kill them!"
"Whoa whoa"
The three thousand soldiers in Yecheng shouted with high morale and rushed to the military camp outside Wancheng City under the leadership of Tang Zhi.
Because the Qin army hastily responded to the battle, at least half of the Qin army guards in this barracks outside the city were not sure what was going on at this moment. How could this stop the offensive of the three thousand Yecheng troops under Tang Zhi?
In an instant, the camp gate was captured by the Wei army. Then the cavalry led by Hua Hu and Cai Cheng and others rushed into the camp as if fish and dragons were entering the sea, and then launched a surprise attack in all directions.
Poor that many Qin soldiers in the camp, until the cavalry in Fangcheng came to their sight, they still didn't know what had happened. They hurriedly raised their weapons to try to fight, but they were soon killed by many Wei soldiers because they were outnumbered.
After killing through the entire camp, Hua Hu did not stop and immediately ordered: "Send the order to hand it over to the soldiers of Yecheng, let's go and support that guy Meng Hu!"
"Here!"
Under Hua Hu's order, 1,500 cavalrymen in Fangcheng left the Qin camp outside the city and rushed straight to Wancheng. Given that the area of the south gate of Wancheng was still under the control of the cavalry under Meng Hu's command, the cavalry led by Hua Hu and Cai Cheng rushed into the city without any trouble.
Seeing countless cavalrymen in the square city hit the city, the Qin soldiers on the southern city wall were completely desperate.
They originally encouraged each other, trying to cheer up and regain the city gate, and then trapped Meng Hu and Cao Chun's five hundred cavalrymen in the city, but unexpectedly, in just a moment, at least a thousand Wei cavalrymen attacked the city, and when they saw that the camp outside the city had burned with raging fire, they finally became desperate.
However, due to the iron rule that deserters will kill the Qin army, these desperate Qin soldiers still bravely held their weapons and rushed towards the Wei cavalry. Perhaps in their opinion, since they were about to die, it would be better to just take a Wei soldiers to take the back.
It has to be said that the death charge of these Qin soldiers in despair actually caused some casualties to the Fangcheng cavalry, but in general, it was not enough to reverse the victory or defeat of the raid. About half a moment later, several fires ignited in Wancheng City.
As Meng Zhong judged, because Wancheng was in the center of Wanfang, Sima Cuo and Bai Qi built the front-line granary in Wancheng in order to facilitate the transportation of grain and grass, and piled all the grain and grass transported here from Wuguan, or from Bashu, through Chu State, in the granary in Wancheng. Now, these countless grain and grass were burned by the Wei army.
Seeing that countless grains gradually turned into coke in the sea of fire, many cavalrymen in Fangcheng had a little regret on their faces.
After all, there is never too much food and grass, let alone Yeyi has accommodated more than 100,000 people in Chu. The food shortage is still very large. He must borrow grain from neighboring cities such as Xu County and Yancheng. If he can grab the Qin army's food and grass, it will naturally greatly alleviate Yeyi's embarrassment of food shortage.
However, they also knew that such a large number of Qin army rations would inevitably be unavailable in a short period of time. Instead of being recaptured by the Qin army, it would be better to burn it in a fire.
Speaking of which, the smart cavalry of Fangcheng took the opportunity to grab some food and put it in the backpack of the war horse. After all, this was a spoil. When you went back to Yeyi's rice shop and sold it, it would be a great reward.
"Long live!"
Suddenly, a Fangcheng cavalry looked at the raging fire in front of him and shouted.
His voice seemed to ignite the enthusiasm of the other Fangcheng cavalry, so that the surrounding Fangcheng cavalry raised their arms and shouted, shouting long live.
Don’t think that these little men can’t understand the situation. At least they also know that if the Qin army loses this batch of food and grass, they will inevitably fall into a difficult situation of shortage of food again. Doesn’t this mean that the Wei army will eventually win the final victory?
He was also very excited about successfully attacking Wancheng, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, Tang Zhi and others. After some discussion, they were too lazy to chase the small Qin troops who fled the battlefield. With the mentality of a victor, they returned to Yangguan along the same path.
Of course, although there is no need to worry about returning, considering that Yangguan is still waiting for their news, Meng Hu, Hua Hu and Tang Zhi did not forget to send a few cavalry to take the lead and report to Yangguan that they had successfully attacked Wancheng.
Perhaps because of joy and excitement, the several Fangcheng cavalry sent out took only one day to deliver the good news to Yangguan.
After learning the good news, Meng Zhong and Zhai Zhang were both very happy.
Because according to Meng Zhong's strategy, only at the beginning of this sneak attack on Wancheng may cause mistakes, which will directly affect the entire situation. However, Tianyou Wei State, Bai Qi was not prepared for Wancheng after all, so he was successfully attacked by them.
Later, during the discussion with Meng Zhong, Zhai Zhang said to Meng Zhong: "The Qin army lost this batch of food and grass in Wancheng. It is not only Bai Qi who was affected, but also Sima Chou, who is most likely to resist Bao Yuan at this moment. You might as well send someone to inform Bao Yuan and give him a rough idea." After talking about the serious matter, the old man did not forget to tease Meng Zhong: "So, is this letter written or did I write it? Or, do you write another letter in my name?"
Hearing this, Meng Zhong smiled bitterly and said, "Of course, it was written by Grand Sima..."
Zhai Zhang laughed loudly when he heard this.
Don't think that he doesn't mind Meng Zhong writing letters to Bao Yuan under his name. It's just that Zhai Zhang, who is in a very good mood, is too lazy to bother with a junior like Meng Zhong. After all, Meng Zhong did that for himself, but for the benefit of Wei State.
Otherwise, with Zhai Zhang's stubbornness, he would never be so easy to talk to.
A moment later, Zhai Zhang wrote a letter, sending people to the east to bypass Yingshan on the north side, and then sent it west to Bao Yuan in the Rushui area.
On the evening of that day, the defeated soldiers in Wancheng barely fled to Bai Qi's army.
At that time, Bai Qi was comparing the map of this area and formulating a strategy to attack Yangguan, but saw his general Tong Yang walking in with a serious expression, clasping his fists and saying, "Bai Shuai, Wancheng was attacked by the Wei army."
"..." Bai Qi didn't react for a moment, looked up at Tong Yang, and then, with a slightly frowning, his eyes slowly widened, and his face gradually showed a shocked expression. He raised his voice and asked in surprise: "What did you say just now? Wancheng? Wancheng was attacked by the Wei army?"
"Yes." Tong Yang lowered his head and explained: "Just just now, the soldiers from Wancheng joined our camp and told a hundred generals at the camp that Wancheng had been attacked. Fortunately, the hundred generals also knew the greatness and did not dare to speak out. They immediately reported to the last general..."
"How is this possible?"
Bai Qi looked shocked and shook his head repeatedly, "These days, our army has always been paying attention to Yangguan. Once there is any disturbance in Yangguan, the soldiers who monitor Yangguan will report it immediately. You said, how could the Wei army sneak attack Wancheng behind our army under your and my eyes?"
To be continued...