The Han troops on the wall of the outpost were already shaking like chaff.
Many of them are local rich people from nearby, and they can show off their power with swords, but who have seen such a terrifying scene?
The thieves below are so densely packed that they are more numerous than the ants on the ground. How do you fight them? Aren't you going to die?
At this moment, they were full of resentment towards Liu Zhi who arranged them here.
But there were still many disciples and tribesmen of Zhongshan Si Liu on the wall of the dock, and they gritted their teeth and kept pushing down the defensive equipment such as rolling logs.
As for the arrows and the like, they are sparse. After all, most of the Liu clan are farmers, and how many of them know how to shoot a bow?
This level of resistance was naturally not noticed by the three generals of Hanoi Town.
Especially Han Hao, the leader of the three generals, had shown off his prowess to the king as early as the Battle of Handan, and then rose to prominence, and now he is the general of Hanoi Town, and he can be said to be highly reused.
Of course, Han Hao's rank still belongs to the field corps. This time he was only sent here to command the local garrison troops. But even so, it is rare for any general to have the experience of commanding three thousand soldiers.
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Since he is a general, he can no longer act like a warrior. Therefore, Han Hao tried to control his excitement and did not attack with the armored warriors. He was observing the battlefield like the senior generals in the army.
And this observation really gave him a different experience.
This is a kind of calm detachment, as if looking at the battlefield from a more objective perspective. This feeling is completely different from when he was a fighting general and charged with his head covered.
Han Hao understood that different standing positions determine different perspectives, and different perspectives determine different thoughts.
Seeing that the arrows on the dock wall were sparsely scattered, Han Hao had a thought at that time:
"The enemy army is very weak and cannot recruit archers."
So Han Hao ordered the warrior Han Biao to lead fifty armored men as a trap, and took the lead in climbing the wall under the sparse rain of arrows.
Han Biao is a member of Han Hao's clan. As Han Hao gains a foothold in the Taishan Army, Han Biao and other Han clan members will naturally grow stronger.
You can say that this is nepotism, but in this era, using people for kinship is the basis for employing people on merit. If I don’t know you, how can I judge that you are capable?
Therefore, whether it is military generals or civil servants, the recommendation of talents is done among friends.
This is the case with Han Biao. Although he joined the Taishan Army through Han Hao's connections, his bravery is not bad.
After receiving the military order, Han Biao only took one look, found a weakly defended crenel, and rushed forward with his head covered. The fifty armored soldiers behind him did the same. Following Han Biao, they bravely stepped forward.
Seeing Han Biao like this, Han Hao was thoughtful and once again had a deeper understanding of the way to be a general.
Han Biao's main attack point was a corner pavilion slightly east, where several Han soldiers with long swords were waving randomly.
These Han soldiers paddling in the water did not see Han Biao due to their perspective. Later, Han Biao led his men to kill them.
As soon as Han Biao led his armored soldiers up the wall, he asked the guards to plant flags.
The Hanoi soldiers who were attacking the fortress from all sides cheered excitedly when they saw their flag flying on the dock wall. For a time, warriors continued to climb up the dock wall.
Yang Mao, who was at the back watching the formation, was surprised to see how smoothly the battle was going, and turned to sigh:
"I never thought that the garrison soldiers in this town would have the courage to ascend first."
The battle ended about half an hour later, and the Han army's outpost wall was captured.
After leaving a battalion of troops here, Yang Mao ordered the entire army to move forward and launch a general attack on the enemy forces in Dingting.
This time, the main attack force was Weijun Town, which had three battalions and 3,000 soldiers.
The general Wei Zhong gave an impassioned speech in front of three thousand brothers, which inspired the soldiers of Wei County to become excited and enthusiastic.
Without making any more moves, Wei Zhong personally led his troops towards Dingting in front.
At this time, the Ding Pavilion was a little distorted and even a little silent under the scorching sun. But the dense antlers and trenches hinted at a tragedy.
The garrison soldiers of Weijun Town formed a fan-shaped formation and pressed forward according to the training method. The generals of each battalion took the lead in person, followed by soldiers carrying flags.
They strode forward in single file, their heavy armors heated by the sun, and the officers were dripping with sweat and panting heavily under their helmets.
In order to boost morale, the war drums in the rear never stopped when the troops in Wei County were marching.
The toughest battle is about to begin.
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From the beginning of the battle in Weijun Town, the enemy received a heavy blow.
Because the trenches were too complicated, the original three battalions of Weijun Town were divided into more than ten pieces. However, the Han army could continuously move and support each other by relying on the trenches.
Moreover, Wei Junzhen's heavy armor also became a drag here. They often slipped and fell into the tunnel before they encountered the enemy, and then never got up again.
This method of trench warfare has never been encountered by local soldiers such as Weijun Town, even the fifth battalion of the Taishan Army. This is a new method of warfare formed by Liu Zhi's extraction of past water conservancy dredging experience.
Liu Zhi deployed about 3,000 men here, which was actually about the same strength as Weijun Town's troops. However, because of the maneuverability of the tunnels, the generals of Weijun Town on the front line felt that there were seven or eight thousand people on the opposite side.
As a result, the war became more and more painful, and the general Wei Zhong had no choice but to ask for reinforcements from the rear.
When Wei Zhong's request for help was sent to Yang Mao, his judgment on the original information was greatly deepened.
Before the war, Yang Mao judged from the number of enemy flags that there should be about 20,000 people here.
But then the enemy's front wall was breached, causing Yang Mao to doubt this judgment.
With such a strong force, how could they only put so few people at the outpost? And from the subsequent torture of the prisoners, it was learned that the Han army on the opposite side only had three to four thousand people.
So Yang Mao was a little angry at being fooled.
But just when he overturned his previous judgment, Wei Zhong came to ask for help again?
Aren't there only about three thousand people on the opposite side? Why did Wei Zhong say there were seven or eight thousand people?
At this time, Yang Mao fell into huge doubts.
He didn't know whether what the prisoner said was true or whether it was the strategy of the Han general opposite.
At this time, the Tianxiong Army in charge of Li Fu's original left wing sent the latest battle report, saying that Han cavalry was found in the woods to the west.
At this time, Yang Mao began to study the terrain to the north.
First of all, there is the large forest to the west. This place is lush and green. If you want to hide a few soldiers, you can hide thousands of people. And now the military report sent by Li Fu proves that it is the cavalry of the Han army lurking in this forest.
The forest is only about one mile away from the Dingting position.
At this position, the cavalry will arrive in an instant.
If the Han cavalry launches an attack, the Weijun garrison already fighting on the battlefield will be in great danger.
And Yang Mao not only discovered this, he also saw a wheat field behind Dingting. The wheat grew very happily, and it was entirely possible that it could become an ambush site for the Han army.
At this time, Yang Mao broke out in cold sweat.
An unknown premonition enveloped his mind, so he made the worst decision in this battle:
"Send gold and order Wei County to withdraw its troops."
Although the military staff were surprised by Yang Mao's decision, no one came to dissuade him. After all, judging from the situation on the front line, Weijun's soldiers were indeed unable to fight well and needed to withdraw first to rest.
As a result, Wei Zhong, who was already fighting on the front line, did not see the reinforcements he expected, but instead heard the troops coming from behind.
Now he was a little angry.
It's so embarrassing. Hanoi Town fought so brilliantly just now, but when it was our Weijun Town soldiers' turn to take the field, they had to be withdrawn. It was really a disgrace to Wang Ji's children.
That's right, the children of Wei County call themselves the children of Wang Ji.
In fact, Yang Mao's decision cannot be wrong, but he received the wrong information.
At this moment, he gave up continuing the attack on Dingting, and instead waited for the arrival of Cai Que's central guard army as the king had said.
To put it bluntly, Yang Mao is very unconfident in the combat power of his subordinates.
After learning that the main force of the Zhenbei Army might be on the opposite side, he did not have enough confidence to fight. So he wanted to wait for Cai Que's elite troops to arrive.
But in fact, Dingting is at the end of its tether at this moment.
Liu Zhi never expected that the Taishan bandits on the opposite side would be so brave. Their armor and fighting skills were far superior to those under his command.
Even the cohesion Liu Zhi was proud of was no more than evenly matched against the Taishan Army on the opposite side.
In fact, Liu Zhi didn't know.
The garrison soldiers he faced actually had great potential.
These garrison soldiers selected from the field guards often come from the same place in the grassroots army. These people eat, live and train together, and are then assigned to garrison points together.
The teamwork between them is no worse than Liu Zhi's team work.
Therefore, Liu Zhi actually fought very hard.
And the five hundred riverside soldiers he originally deployed in that forest had a very limited role now. Because in the middle, a large enemy cavalry regiment gathered there.
And from the constant mobilization of small teams into the forest from the opposite side, it can be inferred that the Hejian Cavalry has also been exposed.
What worries him even more is that this is only a part of the enemy's army, and the main force on the opposite side has not yet arrived. And the reinforcements originally promised by Lu Zhi have not yet arrived.
How could this not make Liu Zhi despair?
He thought of what he had said to convince the clan elders before.
"Now that the world is in chaos, I, the Liu family, have encountered the same predicament as before in the late Xinmang years. How can I, the Liu family of Zhongshan, be rich and noble for generations? Isn't it just because my surname is Liu? If I, the Liu family, don't save this Han Dynasty,
Who else can save the Han Dynasty? If the Han Dynasty dies, we, the Liu family of Zhongshan, will be the remnants of the previous dynasty, and we will not be able to have a night of peace at that time!"
It was through his great righteousness that the country was in disaster and the family was destroyed, the four people in Zhongshan were united together.
But now it seems that I, the Liu family of Zhongshan, are really going to die in Dingting.
At this time, Liu Zhi couldn't help but think of the words of a clan uncle:
"If the Liu family of Zhongshan are all dead, what does the revival of the Han Dynasty have to do with us?"
But who would have imagined that the other side, Ming Jin, had withdrawn its troops?
Liu Zhi ignored his ecstasy and ordered his troops to clean the battlefield and continue to reinforce the trenches.
At this time, Liu Zhi had time to count the casualties of his tribe. In just a short time, more than 800 tribesmen were dead. This made his heart even heavier.
But no matter what the future holds, one more moment to live now is just one moment.
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But the death that awaited Liu Zhi never came.
On the contrary, around the end of the Shen Dynasty, he waited for reinforcements.
A soldier rushed into the position and reported to him that Han Heng, Gao Zheng, Lu Chong, and Xue Shen of the Zhenbei Army had led thousands of reinforcements to within two miles, and told him to insist on the arrival of reinforcements.
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Just looking at the dust rising to the north, Liu Zhi knew that the soldier was not lying.
The reinforcements have really arrived.
The news quickly spread to every Liu family member in the Dingting Front, and the joy of surviving a near-death situation greatly boosted the morale of the members.
On the opposite side, Yang Mao actually knew better than Liu Zhi that enemy reinforcements were coming from the north.
His sentries had already brought the bad news from the north.
At this time, he still didn't understand that the Han army opposite Dingting might really only be in the thousands.
At this time, Yang Mao did not dare to delay any longer, so he ordered Weijun Town and Hanoi Town, who had already rested, to attack Dingting together. Then he ordered Zhaojun Town and Dongjun Town to bypass Dingting to block the reinforcements from the north.
You must seize the position before enemy reinforcements arrive.
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Han Heng, Gao Zheng, Lu Chong, and Xue Shen were all powerful warriors from Daibei.
In fact, they met on Guangyang Road and talked with each other. They all received Lu Zhi's military order to go south to rescue Dingting.
But the common identities of the four generals cannot help but make these insecure heroes think too much.
Why are they the ones who go south to rescue people from the north?
Do you want to consume them?
In fact, they were very distrustful of Lu Zhi, feeling that he seemed to be a great scholar, but his methods were crueler than those of border warriors like them.
A normal person would not be able to think of using iron weapons to disrupt the grasslands and then use a vicious plan to drain the firepower of the Han people in the border areas.
Therefore, with this heavy distrust, the four soldiers moved very slowly.
But no matter how slow it is, this road will eventually arrive one day.
On August 6th, at the end of the application period.
The nearly 5,000-strong horse infantry of the four northern armies finally arrived within two miles of Dingting.
Here, they could smell the bloody smell coming from the direction of Dingting. From the dust in the sky, they could also know what kind of tragedy the Dingting battlefield was at this time.
At this time, the four generals Han Heng, Gao Zheng, Lu Chong and Xue Shen hesitated.
It happened that a nearby village elder sent truckloads of clean water to work for the army.
So the four generals took the opportunity to order the officials to drink water and rest, while they surrounded the village elder and asked about the situation in Dingting at this time.
This village elder was a rich man from a nearby Wubi village, and his family also had dozens of servants.
Originally, he was ready to live out his old life, but his son, who had previously served in the county, went south with the Prime Minister of Zhongshan and never came back.
Everyone said that his son was dead and his head had been chopped off by Taishan bandits from the south.
The boss of this village fell ill, and after that he hated the Taishan thieves to the core.
But he knew that he couldn't get revenge on his own, so he did what he could. He had also joined the army in his early years and knew that a large army must be tired and thirsty when it moves quickly.
So when the disciples who were working outside came to tell him that a Han army was coming from the north, he took all the men and women from Wubi to carry water to work for the army.
For no other reason than to allow these Han soldiers to kill a few more dog thieves.
At this time, he saw four Han generals surrounding him asking about the situation in Dingting. The countryman didn't know that these four people were afraid.
How can this be done? If we don’t coax you to kill the thief, who will avenge my son?
So the village elder had an idea.
Families, come and get your monthly pass. There will be a real battle tonight to see how Xiao Chen defeats the opponent.