In the sixth year of Guanghe, on the eleventh day of the sixth month, Sishi, the west wall of the three fortresses of Puyangjin.
The people who led the army to attack this wall were Ding Sheng and Wang Zhang. Both of them were old Taishan troops and both were good warriors. Therefore, after Guan Yu mobilized, the two armies had already invaded Ruhuo and launched an attack on the west wall.
With their current status, Ding Sheng and Wang Zhang no longer need to be on the front line, but they think that Zhang Chong's military system does not allow them to do so. If their generals die, their guards will be in misery.
So now running on the front line are Wang Zhang's general Guo Mo and Ding Sheng's general Jin Quan. Both are famous brave generals of the Taishan Army, especially Guo Mo, who is as fierce as a tiger.
He was a farmer from Yanzhou. When Sui Zhang's soldiers came to aid Hu's mother's family, he was captured by Zhang Chong in a battle, so he had only been in the Taishan Army for more than two years. But despite the short time, he had already made great achievements in battle.
From Wangzhang, he broke the wall of Jin's family and beheaded fifteen levels. From Poshanwei, he climbed first. From Po Changshao, he cut eight levels and captured twenty people. Later, in the battle of Bo County, he beheaded one general and captured two people.
Level 10, thirty-six people were captured. The iron spear in his hand was already black from being soaked in too much blood.
At this time, Guo Mo led his own soldiers, all wearing double armor, and stood in front of the formation bravely. Then he waved his hand, and a group of Taishan soldiers wearing only single clothes and bare feet rushed up with carts.
Although the Han stronghold in front of Guo Mo did not draw a large river to surround the stronghold, it dug a deep chasm that was impossible to jump over. And if one climbed up from the chasm, it would become a target for the shooters on the enemy's stronghold.
But the Taishan Army has a way. Until now, the Taishan Army has never fought any battles. It has long developed new methods of attacking the stronghold based on the Han soldiers who are good at digging deep trenches to defend the stronghold.
I saw these single-clothed Taishan troops getting directly behind a pallet cart when they charged. This pallet cart was specially modified by the craftsman battalion. The front side was completely made of wooden boards and was covered with cowhide to prevent fire. They pushed the cart and rushed
When we arrived at the deep chasm, we stopped moving, fixed the loading cart, moved the packed earth bags from the cart, and started filling the deep chasm.
There was a clanking sound from the cart in front of them, which was the Han soldiers' archers firing arrows. At first, the Taishan army was worried, but later they saw that the Han soldiers could not do anything to them, so they filled the trench faster.
As for the Taishan soldiers here, as soon as they had thrown away the earth bags on the cart, they pulled the cart back quickly. The archers on the enemy's stronghold had nothing to do with these people.
As soon as the Taishan soldiers rushed back to the formation, they saw dust flying in front of the formation. This was the dust raised by the Taishan soldiers who were left in the formation digging earth to pack bags. When the Taishan soldiers in front were filling the trench, these people were already digging earth to pack bags.
After the people in front came back and filled up the bags, we continued to fill the trench.
To be honest, if it is an ordinary battle group, this kind of enemy trenches are filled with soil, and they carry a bag of soil to a wooden stick. They can only rest after gathering five wooden sticks. As for those who cannot collect it, that is
If you die in front, you can just use it to fill the gully.
The reason why they drove Dingkou to fill the gap was, on the one hand, they did not take the lives of these Guizhou leaders seriously, and on the other hand, it was also because they wanted to recharge their batteries in order to cope with the subsequent attack on the stronghold. Who would use it like the Taishan Army?
Fill in the ravines with your own people.
But the Taishan Army was able to do it, and it was making rapid progress. In less than two seconds, ten carts had already delivered four hundred bags of earth, and a fifteen-step gap was filled directly in the ravine in front of the Han barracks. The earth-baked bridge was leveled, and the distance allowed for a simultaneous charge. It was completely enough for Guo Mo and the others to charge in a vertical formation.
As soon as the Taishan Army in front was filled in, they raised a yellow flag and waved it forward.
Guo Mo, who was standing in front of the formation at the back, saw the flag waving and knew that the gully had been filled, so he pulled up his mask and said in a loud voice:
"Raise swords and fight for peace. Fight with me"
The guards behind, who were wrapped in double armor like Guo Mo, chanted this sentence and began to charge with Guo Mo, who was carrying an iron spear.
As soon as they rushed to the cart in front, they hid behind the cart, and then drove directly to the base of the camp under the cover of the cart.
The Han soldiers standing on the camp had never seen such shamelessness, and they all hid behind the carriages. Seeing the armored soldiers below getting closer and closer, they all became anxious and quickly asked the archers to change their arrows.
The Han archers who were killed wrapped their arrows around their arrows, put on a brazier, and four or five of them used one brazier to light the fire. After a while, a burst of fire rained down on the carriage below.
The carts were covered with cowhide and used to set fire, but in fact this thing could not really block the fire, that is, it would not support combustion. As the arrows rained down, the Taishan Army's carts began to make a squeaking sound. This was because the fire was burning wood. Sounds like it won't take long for these carts to be burnt.
The Taishan Army below encountered problems, but the Han soldiers above were not having a hard time either. You must know that it is already June, and it is the hottest time of the day at noon. The Han soldiers set up a brazier here, and you can imagine how much more will happen. hot.
The Han soldiers and other archers were all wearing leather armor, which was airtight to begin with, and they were sweating profusely. But after all, they were soldiers of the Northern Army. Even though they were in such a difficult situation, no one said they would put out the brazier.
This means that military orders are as strong as a mountain and discipline is strict.
But the Han soldiers could resist, but the river bandits behind them couldn't stand it. These people were Yang Du's men. After he brought a thousand water bandits with him and received a seed of Shao to recruit them, they were divided into soldiers. Half of them were divided. When we arrived at the west wall, we defended the west wall with the 200 northern sergeants here. Half of them were assigned to the east wall and jointly defended with the 200 northern sergeants here. As for Yang Du himself, he was naturally detained in the central army by Zhong Shao, so he would be guarding the west wall. It's the most important south wall.
It can also be seen from this that Zhong Shao never thought about treating this group of water pirates well, he just used them for consumption.
In the military report sent to Lu Zhi of Hebei Province, he truthfully wrote about recruiting the river bandits:
"There is a bandit named Yang Du from a large river who has asked for help many times. If he is refused again and again, he may realize that his way of survival is at an end and take the risk and throw himself into the Yellow Turban bandits to expand their military power. Otherwise, if he shows restraint to the bandits, they will not be able to collude with him. , recruiting their troops is considered a waste. This will achieve many benefits."
Yang Du, who came ashore with great joy, was captured by his troops as soon as he landed, his troops were used as dogs and sheep, and his men were used as military officers. The white horse water bandits, which had been famous for a while, disappeared in name only.
So now we can understand the laziness of the Xibi water bandits. After all, their leader is under house arrest and he is being driven around like a sheep dog. No one has the courage to do so. Moreover, they are water bandits to begin with, and they focus on loyalty rather than military discipline. So some people have already retreated behind the wall, staying away from the brazier.
But as soon as they retreated, a group of axemen rushed over from behind, beheaded them directly, and then tied their heads to a bamboo pole and passed them on the wall.
After being killed by these Han soldiers, none of the water bandits could complain about the heat anymore. They were more afraid of death than the heat. Although the brutal killings by the Han soldiers stopped their retreat, the water bandits all died in grief.
At this time, the Taishan Army soldiers below were also speeding up the siege.
They unloaded the ladders from both sides of the carriage, and then, right behind the carriage, they began to use the iron cones of the arms to combine the two short ladders into one. In this way, without the Han soldiers noticing, ten ladders were hung on the
On the west wall.
The Han soldiers were shocked. Immediately there were strong men holding bamboo poles to push down the ladders, but there were already soldiers standing below. In the end, only one of the ten ladders was pushed down. The other Taishan soldiers waved their Changge and kept climbing.
Go up to the west wall.
Guo Mo, who was standing under a ladder and commanding the climbers, saw that his brothers had already climbed up the wall, and he was convinced. With these soldiers nailed to the wall, he, Guo Mo, had finally captured the west wall.
It was also at this time that something unexpected happened.
The Taishan Army soldiers who had already reached the top of the wall suddenly saw groups of crossbowmen coming up from both sides of the wall. Those who knew better exclaimed after just one glance:
"It's a big yellow crossbow."
Then there were arrows like locusts on both sides. The sharp arrows pierced through armor and penetrated the skin, nailing all the Taishan Army soldiers to the wall.
There were three soldiers who climbed the city. Except for the three outermost soldiers who jumped off the wall and were injured, the rest died.
Guo Mo below was about to climb the ladder when he suddenly heard screams coming from above. At first he thought they were enemy soldiers, but if he listened closely, he found out they were his own soldiers. Immediately, his heart tightened, and he immediately shouted to the side:
"Hurry up."
At this moment, three of our own people suddenly jumped off the wall, crying:
"It's the Han soldiers' big yellow crossbow."
Just as Guo Mo was about to ask again, dozens of Taishan army leaders were thrown down on the west wall, turning the foot of the wall into a Shura field.
Looking at these withered heads, and thinking that they had talked eloquently to him just now, Guo Mo became furious, raised his iron spear and shouted:
"Pigs and dogs, come and die for Nai Gong."
Then Guo Mo saw a Han soldier suddenly appear from above, holding a big yellow crossbow in his hand, and Sen Han's arrow on the crossbow was already pointed at him.
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Just when the Taishan Army Guan Yu's headquarters launched a general attack on Puyangjin, not far downstream of Puyangjin, Luo Gang and Pan Zhang were leading their water bandit brethren to pull out small boats from the grass. These were large boats.
Those who were hidden by the river bandits before were now brought out by Luo Gang to do a big thing.
Pan Zhang helped Luo Gang push the boat and said:
"Brother, do we really want to do this for the Yellow Turbans of Mount Tai? This is no small matter. No matter how nice Zhang Chong said, he said that they were conducting a frontal attack to attract the attention of the Han soldiers and asked us to go retrograde to the Puyang Bridge and stab him from behind.
Kill the Han soldiers. But brother, don’t think about it simply. No matter how unprepared the Han soldiers are behind them, there will be no one left to guard the bridge."
Luo Gang was pulling the rope to tow the boat. After listening to Pan Zhang's words, he was silent for a while and then said:
"Azhang, I didn't think this matter would be easy, but I thought too much about it. I also thought that even if we fight on the bridge, we will charge at the Han soldiers first. At that time, if the Taishan army in front cannot rush in, we will It’s dangerous.”
Pan Zhang frowned and said in confusion:
"Brother, since you have thought about it, why are we doing this? Why don't we go downstream and start again? Even if that doesn't work, we can still go to the river. There are so many lakes and seas in the world, and there is always a place for you and my brothers to be free."
Luo Gang shook his head and said to Pan Zhang seriously:
"The world has changed, and the world is going to be in chaos. It is no longer possible to be a free water bandit. Now you and I will take a gamble and bet that Zhang Chong is a person. Brother, are you willing to believe me?"
Pan Zhang looked into Luo Gang's eyes and nodded firmly.