Chapter 467: The Water Battle of the Liangzhou People
The city gate has been blown open, and the will of the northern city defenders has been destroyed. Most of the defenders from the east and west walls came to support the northern city. The remaining number was very small, and they were also greatly affected.
The victory of the war in Ji County has been decided.
The trapped camp rushed directly to the city's administrative office, and the guard camp and Shesheng camp rushed along the city wall. They quickly blocked the four gates and were dividing their forces to occupy the military camp, treasury and transportation arteries.
The operation went smoothly and the resistance in the city was not high.
The arrival of thermal weapons in this era has a greater shock to people's hearts than blowing up city gates.
Many people were confused and surrendered in a daze.
But Suwei and Qingcheying were unable to move, and the horses were frightened.
Before the door was blown, the war horses and pack horses had been brought to the river a few miles away, and a lot of people had been sent to guard them. However, the violent noise still frightened the horses. No matter how they were comforted, they would not be close to the explosion.
place.
The soldiers of the Anping Army had received the order in advance and were mentally prepared. The sound of the explosion would only surprise them and not cause panic. However, horses cannot understand human speech. Their animal instincts made them think that Ji County was dangerous, so they did not react on the spot.
It would be good to blow up the group.
Liu Xiang was helpless.
"Split some people and take the horses for a long drive to the south and enter the city. If that doesn't work, then stay outside the city first and let the horses calm down before we talk."
Su Wei listened to the order, divided a hundred men and took 800 horses and galloped eastward along the river bank, running very fast, as if running for his life.
These horses have not been specially trained to deal with explosions, and it is normal for their hips to pull.
As for the ballistas and artillery carts of the light vehicle battalion, they could only be pushed into the city by the soldiers.
In fact, if the Suwei and Qingchao battalions are fully equipped, the number of war horses and pack horses should be 1,400. During the rapid march, the number of pack horses will be supplemented, and the number will be 2,300.
But the fleet capacity was insufficient, and only 800 horses were packed into the fleet.
Fortunately, it was not a large group of horses, otherwise it would have exploded because there were not that many manpower to pacify them. There was fighting in the front and ships were being unloaded in the rear, so there were not many people to distinguish.
"Let's go to the city first." Liu Xiang shook his head and rushed towards Ji County on foot.
Sun Ce drooped his head. How could he fight Ma Chao without a horse? The opponent must have run away, and he couldn't catch up even if he wanted to.
The worry of Mr. Sun's family was completely unnecessary. After they entered the city, they received a report that Ma Chao and his family had long been captured.
It's not that they didn't want to run away, but they didn't run away.
The horses five or six miles outside the city were frightened, and the horses in the city were even more frightened. The sound of bombing the north gate was just in their ears. Even the farthest south city was only one mile away from the city.
All the livestock were frightened. The horses, donkeys, and mules were either so frightened that they ran wildly and stumbled, or their hooves were so weak that they peed all over the ground and could not be ridden at all.
The Anping Army entered the city very quickly, and the trapped troops blocked them inside the government office.
Not only Ma Teng's family members didn't have time to run away, but also a few in the whole city.
No one expected that the city would be destroyed so quickly.
When the people in the city heard that it was the Great Sima Yu who blew up the city gate with thunder, both the people and the prisoners immediately became extremely calm and did whatever they were told, without any thought of resistance.
The explosion was so loud, who couldn't hear it? Such myths and legends happened around them, and their inner defenses were instantly broken.
How to resist?
Who dares to resist?
The rest is simple.
There were more than 10,000 defenders in the city, but they were defeated within a quarter of an hour of fighting. The casualties were not large, only a few hundred people, and more than 10,000 people were captured. There were nearly 40,000 civilians, and they basically had no time to run, so they surrendered quite simply.
The treasury in the city was not damaged, and more than 30,000 stones of grain and grass were piled intact inside.
Ma Teng was carried down from the tower. He was dying and unconscious. He didn't know if he could survive it.
Ma Chao is only seventeen years old. Although he has a violent temper and loves to fight fiercely, he is not yet old enough to stand alone and turn the tide.
This battle went more smoothly than expected.
Liu Xiang was sitting in the lobby of the office, looking at the map of Ji County.
He did not send troops to occupy the Pi Road and Di Road leading to Longxi County in the west and southwest, Wangyuan and Shanggui along the Wei River in the east, and Shehu Valley at the end of Qishan Road in the south of the county.
Isn't it too exciting to die alone and then divide the troops to defend it? His purpose is not to occupy Weinan, but to attract thieves to attack the city.
Therefore, the first order was to send people to clean the north gate, repair the damaged city wall, and build an earthen platform more than ten feet high inside the gate to facilitate defense.
The second order was to strengthen the walls and clear the country, gather the people around Ji County, burn down the houses, block the wells, cut down all the trees within ten miles of the city, collect all the grain and grass, and leave no usable resources for the enemy.
The third order was to announce a plan to pacify the people, promising to withdraw the people from the battlefield and purchase their livestock at market prices.
Liu Xiang planned to evacuate the people of Hebei County to Chencang to reduce food consumption on the front line and turn this place into a military city. Except for the captured soldiers who would be left behind to serve as civilian husbands and the young and strong among the people, he was not prepared to forcefully recruit them.
When these common people arrived in Chencang, those who wanted to divide their fields would move to Wudu through Sanguan. The young and strong could also be recruited as civilian husbands, earn some money, and alleviate the labor shortage problem in Chencang and Longguan.
In view of his reputation in Liangzhou and the shock of the gunpowder explosion, when the navy arrived for the second time thirteen days later, several orders were carried out fairly well.
After unloading 40,000 stones of grain and grass, 700,000 arrows, 600 horses, 50,000 crossbows, and 30,000 stone bullets, the fleet turned around and took away 50,000 people.
Ji County became a military city garrisoned by more than 27,000 people, waiting for the arrival of the kingdom, Han Sui.
In thirteen days, the kingdom in the west and Han Sui in the northwest had gathered no less than 100,000 people and were marching towards Ji County. More than 20,000 people stationed outside by Ma Teng also gathered in Shanggui and Wangyuan, waiting for the arrival of their allies.
arrival.
It was the unbridled fleet of ships on the river that troubled them. Those two kinds of warships, which were as slender as centipedes, were too fast. They slipped past the river and ran away after shooting. The archers posted on the shore suffered a lot of losses.
It's huge, and there are stacks and arrow sheds on the ship to protect it from arrows, so it can't be defeated at all.
Although those two types of boats may look slender, their hulls are too strong. The pontoons and ropes they have set up will break at the first impact, just like knives, and there is no way to stop them.
These Liangzhou thieves were scratching their heads in sorrow, unable to deal with them.
Not to mention that the new warships of Yunfan Camp are already sharp, and the troops led by Taishi Ci, Zhou Tai, and Ling Cao are all brave and good at fighting.
Simply asking the people of Liangzhou to start a water fight would embarrass them to death.
Apart from pulling ropes, building pontoons, trying to force the ships to stop, and setting up arrow formations on the shore to shoot at the navy, they could think of no other way to deal with the water battle.
Such as digging diversion canals to lower the water level, driving wooden piles at the bottom of the river, building hidden dams to force ships to run aground, setting fire to ships from upstream to break up the formation, dumping oil, setting fire to the river, and sending water ghosts to dig out ships.
These water fighting methods are beyond their imagination, because they have never encountered this kind of fighting and have no experience at all.
They didn't even use rockets when shooting at each other.
When Liangzhou people engage in water fights, they are directly aiming to kill people.
Use arrows as long weapons, draw bows as strong weapons, shoot men first, shoot horses first, and capture thieves first, capture the king first. This is their familiar fighting method.
The enemy is on horseback, so they know how to shoot horses, but the enemy is standing on a boat, and they think it is useless to shoot boats.
The boat can't be shot.
If you are capable, shoot a ship to death and show me!
As for the idea of burning the boat, they had also thought about it, but the river was full of water, and they thought only fools would do such a thing!