Besides, after the Battle of Jingshui, the Liang people built a cruel Jingguan under the city, and threw the heads, ears, tongues, and eyes of the refugees into Gaoling City, and let the prisoners of the Battle of Jingshui declare under the city, Chang'an.
The Northern Army came in full force, but was defeated and returned with nearly 10,000 losses. Gaoling had completely become an isolated city with no soldiers left to save it.
This put great pressure on the sergeants in Gaoling City. Seeing this scene, Lu Bu was speechless for a day, and with a gloomy face, he patrolled back and forth on the city defense, urging the soldiers to continue to defend the city.
It's just that the current situation in Gaoling City is too bad. If you look around on the city, you can see a three-foot-high earth mountain within a few dozen steps, which is level with the city wall. On top of the earth mountain, there is another one that is more than ten feet high.
The archers on the archery tower are condescending. While shooting arrows, they also have a clear view of the situation in the city. The siege fortifications are so huge that they are like building a city outside the city. The soldiers not only have to beware of the enemies under the city, but also have a clear view of the situation in the city.
They had to dodge the arrows coming from their heads, and they complained endlessly. As the saying goes, it is difficult to attack a city and it is easy to defend it, but the current situation seems that the one who is defending the city is not Lu Bu, but the Liang people outside the city.
Another day passed, and today's attack by the Liang people was barely repelled. However, the outer part of Gaoling has basically fallen, and the main city has been broken through several times. Lu Bu led the trapped camp to put out fires everywhere. Even as brave as him, this
Shi also felt quite tired. After dinner, Chief Shi Weilan reported today's casualties to Lu Bu. In summary, more than 300 people died today and more than 600 were injured. The casualties are actually acceptable, but it has a negative impact on morale.
The impact is fatal. If this continues, I am afraid that as long as we hold on for another six days, the morale of the army will be on the verge of collapse.
Lu Bu thought for a while, held his usual daily military meeting, and expressed his thoughts: "I plan to break out of the encirclement the next day. What do you think?"
Gao Shun was a loyal man. He hesitated when he heard this and said: "Although we have lost the outer wall, there is still Wengcheng in the city. If we want to hold on, we can still hold on for ten days. Is it too early to break out the next day?"
Some."
Cao Xingze said: "If you enter Wengcheng, you won't be able to escape even if you want to. What the general said is right. If you still have the strength to break out and return to Beijing, you can still rely on the huge defenses of Xijing to hold on. But if it takes a few days,
We are forced into a barbican, and even if we want to break out, there is no way out."
Lu Bu actually didn't expect this level. He just fought hard for many days and faced the siege. He couldn't help but feel a little unsteady, so he spoke like this. And when he said the words about breaking out of the siege, he actually felt a little ashamed in his heart, as if his bravery was nothing but duckweed on the water.
, the scar on his face was aching, but when he heard what Cao Xing said, he felt relieved again and said to everyone: "That's it. It's just that I don't have a good idea on how to act." As he spoke,
The breakout has been decided.
So everyone came up with suggestions one after another, and the main suggestions were summarized, which was to quickly break out of the encirclement from the west at dawn, when the Liang people were about to wake up. But Zhang Liao thought about what he had seen and heard during the day, and said: "Bai
During the day, Lianggou almost broke through the city several times, but they all came from the west. It can be seen that no matter whether the rescue was successful or not, Lianggou was already on guard in the west. We left the city from the west and had no intention of falling into a trap."<
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These words were really insightful, and they immediately convinced everyone, so they changed their plan. After some discussion, they felt that Zhang Ji's tribe in the south was the weakest, and to the south was the Weishui River. Generally speaking, going to the water is asking for death, and going north is the end of the road.
People in Shangjun can often survive in the mountains and wilderness, but there are many locals in the army who know that there is a shoal in the Wei River that can be crossed on foot without a boat, but the Liang people definitely don't know that.
Finally, it was Zhang Liao who came up with the idea again: "Although we don't plan to break out from the west, we can make a show of opening the west gate first and pretend to go out from here. When Liang Gou mobilizes heavy troops, we will go out through the south gate. They
How to be on guard against getting it?"
Everyone clapped and applauded, and Lu Bu smiled at him and said, "Okay, Wen Yuan, I didn't expect that your knowledge has improved so quickly!"
One night passed, and the next day, Gaoling's garrison continued to resist as usual, but secretly, Lu Bu observed the layout of the Liang people on each section of the city wall while patrolling, and personally informed his subordinates of the news of tomorrow's breakout, so as not to be alerted by the Liang people.
And arrange rest early, especially to allow the cavalry to rest during the day. They are the vanguard of the breakout. Whether they can succeed or not actually depends on them.
At the same time, Jia Xu was observing the situation of defending the city from a watchtower on a hill. He keenly discovered that the strength of the Liang people defending the city had changed. It was obvious that the number of defenders had decreased slightly, but the number of defenders was still there.
The spirit is high and the morale has improved significantly. If you use tricks to intimidate, there is obviously a problem.
He knew that the garrison in the city was taking action, but he was a little unsure whether to attack the camp at night or break through the siege, so he made a plan and transferred his 10,000 troops from ten thousand years to the army in the east of the city, ready to take action at any time.
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When night fell, Jia Xu climbed up the tower again to look at the city. He saw that Gaoling City was completely dark except for the defenders on the city wall who were still holding torches. It was obvious that they deliberately did not light the fire in order to conceal their actions. Jia Xu had no doubts about Lu Bu's actions.
Directly ordered his subordinates to eat and prepare for war.
At Yin Shi, there is no moon in the sky, and the stars are gradually dimming. No matter how well people prepare, this is the most sleepy time of the day. The Liang people in Gaoling City washed their faces with well water, sobered up for a while, and then started to act decisively.
At night, the west gate gradually opened, which alerted the night watch sentries. They blew their horns to wake up the resting soldiers. The cavalry on the mausoleum first formed an array to block the roads up and down the mausoleum.
However, it was not the cavalry of the defenders who left the city first, but the rolling stones that had caused them great suffering before.
These were the only unused rolling stones left in the city, and there were about twenty of them. They were all moved to the west gate by the defenders at night. As soon as the gate was opened, they pried out the gate one by one, turning into a burst of
A thunderous roar.
It was dark at night, and the Liang people couldn't see clearly the rolling stones. They could only hear the loud roar. By the time they could see clearly, there was nowhere to escape. Blood and flesh were flying everywhere, and many people were crushed to death, including horses and people.
Only half of the body was left alive, whining and howling in agony on the ground. It was obvious that he was in extreme pain. From this point of view, it was a good thing to die quickly. Unknown people from behind came over and saw a hellish scene.
Tu Jing thought that the Liang people in the city had invited ghosts and gods. For a moment, they cowered and did not dare to move forward. They only called for reinforcements from the north and south.
When the guards in the south saw Liang Ren going to the west, they quickly blew the horn of attack. The soldiers who had been waiting for a long time rushed out of the city gate with arrows like loose strings. The one who rushed forward was Gao Shun's trap.
There were about two hundred people in the camp, all holding torches that bound Song Ming. They threw them all under the watchtower in front of the city gate. They quickly piled up into a pile and burned violently. Soon, the fire dancing like a strong wind swallowed up the most important people.
The watchtowers were burned and collapsed, and the roads on both sides were cleared.
At this time, Gao Shun rode his horse southward, and in a blink of an eye, he had occupied the road to Xialing. Zhang Ji had not yet reacted. There were only about thirty people guarding the road in front of him. Gao Shun collapsed when Gao Shun rushed forward.
After reaching the initial goal, the troops behind also swarmed out. The time for them to break out was not long. This situation only lasted about three quarters of an hour before reinforcements from both sides were about to encircle them.
In this case, even though he had seen the way to escape, Gao Shun turned his horse's head and led the trapped camp straight to the other side, which was Zhang Ji's camp. The Liang people who had just realized the situation just tried to gather together to counterattack
, but Gao Shun came faster and rushed directly into the camp. The Liang people were completely unprepared. They only saw a group of tall horses charging towards them, and they rushed in at once. Some Liang people tried to fight back with arrows, and some Liang people held back.
He moved forward, but Gao Shun completely ignored him. He just lowered his head and walked through the camp, knocking all the firelights he could see to the ground.
When he fought his way out of the camp, he realized that he had passed through Zhang Ji's entire camp. There was a fire behind him, and there were only less than a hundred riders left behind him. Many familiar people were missing, and Gao Gao
Shun himself was hit by dozens of arrows, three of which pierced his flesh, causing him to feel a dull pain.
However, this also succeeded in attracting the attention of the subsequent main breakout force. When the Liang people who came later saw the flames of Zhang Ji's camp, they thought there was a large group of people rushing to kill them, so most of them rushed to the camp to rescue them. After two rounds, there were nearly 20,000 people in the city.
People have basically broken out of the encirclement and rushed down to the cemetery.
Seeing that there was no need to restrain him, Gao Shun immediately led the remaining elite cavalry to join Lu Bu. Lu Bu led the army at the front. When he saw Gao Shun, he laughed and said: "A good man can do a dragon-tiger fight!".
Looking back at Gaoling, the Liang people were in chaos below the city, with people shouting and neighing everywhere. Order could not be restored in a short time, and they did not dare to pursue forward. This made Lu Bu, who had suffered for several days, very happy. He again
Gao Shun promised: "When I return to Xijing, I will definitely ask Situ to give you two thousand stones!"
After saying that, they quickly marched south, twenty miles southeast, which was the shore they were looking for. In the blink of an eye, it was Chenshi, but to their surprise, they arrived at the shore of the Weishui River, but did not find the soldiers' place.
Talk about the shallows.
Before I could have a detailed argument with others, the rear team suddenly came to report that Liang Ren had already arrived!
How did it come so fast? This thought flashed through everyone's mind, but it was too late to think about it at this time. They asked them to turn their horses around. At this time, they had to fight to the death with Liang Ren who was several times their enemy. It would be a complete ten-death battle.
If there is no life, it is better to bite the bullet and cross the river now!
Lu Bu rode Red Rabbit into the Weishui River first. The water reached Red Rabbit's back. But for a horse like Red Rabbit, wading through the water was nothing more than an easy task. After a few leaps, he actually crossed the nearly 100-foot-wide river.
Weishui River.
But for the other knights, this was very laborious. They could only throw away the armor on their bodies and barely let their mounts relax, so as not to let the water submerge their heads and float up and down in the undulating waves. But ordinary soldiers
They were even more miserable. They paddled their arms in the water, as if they were hugging something, but also as if they were throwing something away. A wave came over and covered some people's heads, flattening them.
Jia Xu led his men to watch this scene, and he didn't know how many people had disappeared forever. So much so that most of the people saw that crossing the river was too dangerous and were unwilling to wade across the bank. Instead, they chose to gather in a group on the north bank.
, at a loss.
He laughed and said: "Before the heavy rain, if there are shoals, it would be a bad idea to break out to the south. But after the heavy rain, it would be too natural to want to escape through the water. However, this saves me some effort."
, Jia Xu's smile turned cold, and he issued an order to his subordinates: "Send the order, since they want to cross the river, let them cross. Those who don't want to cross the river will be made into mud under the horses' hooves!"
His subordinate Liangqi responded like a cloud.
In this battle, the combined army was severely defeated. Lü Bu lost over ten thousand people. He only led more than a thousand people to escape back to Chang'an. Many of them drowned in the Wei River and were trampled to death by horse hooves. Countless people died.
On the fifth day of August, the Liang army came to Chang'an.