Chapter 125: Taking advantage of your illness to kill you
Liu Xiang gave an order, and Wang Xing headed westward. He wanted to lead the team to penetrate the main road connecting the east and west and clear the road for the cavalry.
Zhao Yun followed behind. He wanted to turn north halfway, clear the road, cross the county government, and attack the treasury in the northwest.
Outside the east gate of the city, 3,600 cavalry were on standby.
Liu Xiang stood on the city tower and watched as more than ten thousand infantrymen rushed into the city with high spirits. They did not light torches. They wanted to extinguish the fires lit by the defenders. They wanted to take advantage of the darkness to open up the road.
This is the most dangerous moment, as they will be attacked from three sides.
If you fight like this during the day, you can only trade your life for your life.
At night, they are in darkness and the enemy is in the light. As long as you don't act chaotically, the enemy will be a living target.
Don't the defenders of Zhuo County know about this situation? Of course they know, but there is no way to light the fire. They expose their position and cannot ambush, making them a living target for the crossbowmen. However, they can still resist within the range of the fire.
If the fire is extinguished, they will be blinded and unable to fight back.
This is a fatal problem.
Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, this is what the Anping Army will do.
Once the road is opened and the cavalry can charge, the defenders of Zhuoxian will be completely divided and unable to support each other.
At that time, the Anping Army was able to concentrate its forces, divide and encircle them, and defeat them with more and less in separate battlefields, and finally eat them one by one.
The fires on the main road were extinguished, the antlers were removed, the barriers were demolished, and the barracks at the street corners were uprooted one by one, gradually falling into oppressive darkness.
The soldiers of the Anping Army were like evil ghosts walking in the dark night, bringing carnage and death to neighborhoods one after another. They marched in groups until the west gate.
It's time.
Liu Xiang walked down the city wall, came to the cavalry formation, and shouted loudly: "March along the road, kill all enemies you encounter, and cut off the north and south."
A group of cavalrymen loudly repeated the order: "March along the road, kill all enemies encountered, and cut off the north and south."
Night battles are chaotic, and everyone must be clear about their tasks.
After all the troops had finished repeating, Liu Xiang got on his horse and loudly ordered: "Mount your horse and follow me to kill the enemy."
With 1,600 iron cavalry in the lead, and 2,000 Yue cavalry as the suffix, more than 10,000 horse hooves beat on the land of Zhuo County, with great momentum and arrogance, heading straight towards the west gate.
There are no obstacles along the way.
Did the people leading the troops in Zhuoxian County not understand the seriousness of being partitioned, or were they too timid to fight?
Liu Xiang put aside his doubts and met Wang Xing at the foot of Ximen City. He led the left army and ran to the city wall to avoid the cavalry.
Veterans all know that there is no benefit in standing in front of the cavalry, especially during night battles, when the charging cavalry cannot tell the difference between friend and foe.
"Wang Xing, lead people to support Zhao Yun, seize the treasury, and clean up the northwest city. I will turn to the North Gate Road to cut off reinforcements for you."
"Follow orders."
The left army walked along the city wall and went straight to the treasury.
A thousand cavalry were left at the west gate to intercept the enemy troops heading north for support. Liu Xiang led the remaining cavalry eastward along the main road, near the county government office, and turned to the north gate.
There were people stationed at the county government office. They climbed on the wall to observe the movements of the cavalry. They were shot down by a hail of arrows from the cavalry, and they no longer dared to show their heads again.
Along the road opened by Zhao Yun's team, until the north gate, we still encountered no decent resistance...
The people in Zhuoxian County are really scattered. Without Wen Shu and no one to coordinate and coordinate, these people will fight on their own.
Because of night blindness, they did not dare to mobilize. They planned to garrison the defense area and wait to be wiped out one by one? Liu Xiang appreciated their idea very much.
The cavalry focused on the main road, and more than ten thousand infantry were clearing street after street in the northwest city. Several defenders stationed here wanted to escape, but were scattered by the cavalry as soon as they entered the main road.
A group of half-blind people, carrying torches, fighting by listening to voices and arguing?
The officers and soldiers of the Anping Army did not need to consider the issue of lighting. The enemy would light various lighting flames for them. If they found any light, touching it would be a military achievement.
In just half an hour, they captured the treasury, cleared out the northwest, and captured more than 6,000 people, killing them in vain.
I can’t count, I can’t count clearly, and I don’t have the time to count.
The prisoners were handed over to the North Gate garrison, leaving two thousand people to guard the treasury to prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall and burning the food and grass.
The rest of the infantry moved toward the northeastern city in the bloody moonlight.
The cavalry wandered between the east and west gates, completely cutting off the connection between the north and south cities. This battle will become easier to fight the farther back it goes.
The only person with some resistance in the northeastern urban area was the county government. About two to three thousand defenders retreated inside, relying on the high wall, lighting fires in the courtyard, and confronting the Anping Army.
Wang Xing is a person who likes large equipment. When encountering such a tough battle, he was extremely excited, so he rushed into the city and was pulled into the city.
Then, the gates and walls of the county government collapsed in many places. The defenders inside were baptized by arrows, greeted with spears, and tested with steel knives. Finally, more than 500 people were captured.
Beicheng is in hand.
The infantry returned to the team to repair, replenish food and water, and regain their strength. According to preliminary statistics, more than a thousand people were injured.
There were about 30,000 defenders in Beicheng, 14,000 were captured, and more than 10,000 were killed. The rest had to be carefully hunted during the day, as night battles could not be so detailed.
This kind of casualty ratio is not a battle between two armies at all. This is a result that can only be achieved when chasing down defeated troops.
Night blindness is a fatal weakness.
Liu Xiang was very fortunate that the foundation of the Anping Army was veterans from three border counties. In the past few months, they had exchanged trade with Wuhuan ministries, and their meat supply had increased. The army's sergeants and soldiers were all fully paid, and their daily
^0^The food is much better than that of ordinary people, and there are very few people suffering from night blindness.
From now on, we should also pay attention to the nutrition of army sergeants, especially vitamin A, right? Liu Xiang is not very clear, he only knows that animal offal can cure night blindness.
So you should drink more offal soup.
Liu Xiang licked his lips. He missed the taste of braised pork. In his previous life, he liked to eat braised pork and his cholesterol was too high, so he didn't explain it.
The cavalry was roaming on the road, and the infantry was reorganizing the team. The night battle was chaotic, and many soldiers ran away. Many times, mixed teams were fighting. Fortunately, no cannibalism occurred. This is thanks to Zhuoxian County.
The defenders, they lit too many fires.
Liu Xiang was very grateful for these live prisoners and was going to treat the remaining prisoners preferentially. Just when he was about to give the order not to be abused, there was a roar of people and flames rising to the sky at the south city gate.
The enemy is attacking the city and they want to break through? This was the first thought in Liu Xiang's mind.
He hurriedly ordered: "Zhao Yun will lead the team to clear the roads in the south city, and Wang Xing will lead people to go around the city and attack the enemy's flanks."
Without waiting for the two people to respond, he said again: "Call the remaining three gates to stay on the spot and not to cause chaos."
He wanted to guard against the enemy's attacks from the east and west.
The army accelerated its action. Zhao Yun led the team to remove the antlers and remove obstacles. In less than a quarter of an hour, the road to the south gate was opened. Liu Xiang led the cavalry to gallop and ran directly into the enemy's rear.
The number of enemies is much smaller than expected, especially the rear formation. The formation is very scattered. Each person has two torches. Is this to create momentum?
Where are their goals?
Riding his horse through the enemy formation, Liu Xiang had no time to think too much. Liu Xiang suppressed his thoughts and focused on the current battle.
No matter what your strategy is, no matter how many troops you divide, our army will seize on your weaknesses and beat you to death.
As long as this road is destroyed quickly, the army can naturally return to destroy the enemies in other places.
No matter how you divide your forces, the more you divide the better, Zhuoxian County has become a prison. The more dispersed you are, the weaker your strength will be, and the less likely you will be able to break through the encirclement.
Liu Xiang wanted to see if they had any clever plans.
Dear, this chapter is finished, I wish you a happy reading! ^0^