Chapter five hundred and seventy-ninth siege the city and seize the fortress
In the prime of life, banners and flags support thousands of men, and brocades suddenly ride across the river at the beginning. Yan soldiers sing about silver Hu? at night, and Han arrows fly toward golden servant girls.
Looking back on the past, I sigh at the present. The spring breeze does not stain my white mustache. But I exchanged ten thousand words of plain military policy for my boss's tree planting book.
——"Partridge Sky: A guest talks about fame and fame in memory of his youth" Xin Qiji
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Beiku in Qinghe County is composed of three camps, which are distributed in the shape of "pin".
The three camps are all on the east side of the official road. There are three branches off the official road leading to the gates of the camps. The gates of the camps are brightly lit and heavily guarded.
Except for this branch road that leads directly to the village gate, each camp is surrounded by a trench two feet deep and three feet wide, like a moat.
Each camp has a thick wall. The wall bricks are made of stones as big as millstones, mixed with glutinous rice slurry and plant ash to form a slurry, and poured. It is extremely strong. The wall is four to five feet high, with horse paths and crenels on it.
, no less than a small city tower.
Excluding the civilians who transported supplies, there were about a thousand rebel soldiers stationed in each camp, including 800 Hu and Han infantry and more than 200 Hu and Han cavalry. These two hundred Hu and Han cavalry were the main force of Fan Yang's army.
The infantry is composed of disabled veterans and soldiers who have just completed one year of training.
In accordance with Bai Fu's policy, Li E led two thousand cavalry to block all roads within a ten-mile radius of Beiku.
The remaining soldiers of Husi Village surrounded the third battalion of Beiku.
Han infantry has always been stronger than cavalry. In siege operations, infantry is the absolute main force.
Because Fan Yang's army has long been fighting against the Turks, Khitans, Xi tribes and other grassland tribes in the north, its cavalry is strong, while its infantry is relatively weak. Instead, it relies mainly on infantry to defend the city.
Taking advantage of their strengths and attacking their weaknesses, Husi Village has the upper hand in terms of numbers. Comparing the two, the morale of Husi Village is greatly boosted and everyone is excited.
According to Bai Fu's plan, each time he attacks, he concentrates his superior forces and attacks only one camp.
The remaining two camps seemed to be in close contact with each other, but because the Husi camp had a superior number of people and they were mostly green forest heroes, they set up countless ambushes between the camps. It was difficult for the rebels to have the courage to abandon the city and risk their lives to rescue them.
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The Art of War says: "If you surround an army, you must guard it."
The soldiers of Husi Village attacked the three walls of the village from the northeast and south at the same time, leaving the unguarded west gate for the rebels to escape.
Leave a way for the rebel cavalry to retreat, thereby destroying the rebels' fighting spirit. If the rebel soldiers are trapped and fighting, the city will be difficult to break.
However, Bai Fu did not completely copy this military strategy.
To cut the grass, the root must be removed. Bai Fu suggested that Shan Yun should ambush thousands of elite cavalry and crossbowmen at the north and south ends of the official road to deal with the fish that slipped through the net.
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Shan Yunheng looked around and saw that morale was high. He issued an order and ordered the soldiers to attack the camp where grain and grass were stored.
The hundred-faced cowhide drum rumbled like spring thunder.
The trebuchets of Husi Village were the first to attack. Stones the size of millstones rolled in the air. With the blessing of gravity and speed, the momentum was astonishing. They smashed dozens of trebuchets installed by the rebels on the walls of the village into pieces in turn.
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Immediately afterwards, hundreds of crossbows fired a volley, and with the help of thousands of strong crossbowmen, the defenders behind the crenellations of the village wall were heavy with arrows and did not dare to show their heads.
The soldiers of Husi Village surged up like a tide to the sound of thundering war drums.
The engineering troops threw sandbags into the trenches around the camp and quickly filled the trenches. The forward troops formed a square of one hundred people and were equipped with ten siege ladders to form ten attack points. Each of the ten squares formed a group and launched an attack.
Onslaught in the first round.
The square formations in the deep zone have also been lined up, preparing for the second and third rounds of continuous fierce attacks.
In an instant, the siege ladder leaned against the village wall, and earth-shattering shouts of killing suddenly resounded throughout the wilderness.
The soldiers of Husi Village quickly and orderly climbed up the siege ladder and fought to the top of the city.
A brutal and fierce bloody offensive and defensive battle began.
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The battle became intense as soon as it began.
As soon as the siege ladder of Husi Village came close to the wall, the rebel soldiers used iron forks to block the siege ladder so that it could not reach the wall. Then several people worked together to overturn the siege ladder in one fell swoop;
Or they might throw rolling logs and stones at the siege ladder, smashing the rebels who were going up the ladder to bloody pulp, and then fall off the siege ladder.
This was a no-frills, head-to-head battle. Both sides were playing with their lives, and the casualties were high from the beginning. Crossbows were fired at each other above and below the city, causing sand and rocks to fly. Several ranks of rebels braved the rain of arrows and fought hard to fight.
After attacking the stronghold wall, he was attacked from left and right by the master Hu generals in the defenders, and was killed by hackers.
Bai Fu wanted to guard against the raids of the other two camps, so he did not rush to the tower with the vanguard.
However, Bai Fu was not idle either. He held a bow and arrow "Yai Zhen" and stood on a cloud cart that was as high as the village wall and could be pushed freely, watching every move on the village tower.
Two Hu generals went hand in hand and besieged a warrior from Husi Village. The Hu general on the outside slashed with his sword, while the one on the inside thrust his spear straight at the heart of the warrior in Husi Village.
The strong man's eyes widened in anger, and he slashed with his sword, injuring General Hu, who was holding a spear. However, his fists were hard to beat with four hands, and he could not avoid the attack of General Hu, who was holding a knife. Seeing that his left arm was about to be chopped off by the sword, the strong man only saw two things in front of him.
A beam of white light flashed. Two eagle-feather arrows pierced the throat, killing the two generals in front of them with one blow.
The leader of the camp was a Turkic general who was brave and good at fighting. He brandished a mace and rushed towards the soldiers of Husi Village. With a swing of the stick, he beat the two oncoming soldiers until their brains popped out.
Immediately afterwards, he hit another Husi Fenzhai leader with a stick. The Fenzhai leader was also a tiger general. The two fought against each other and fought ten moves, with no outcome.
The Turkic leader saw that the leader of the branch village was not inferior in martial arts and was entangled in a difficult situation. He was very timid. During the close combat, he unexpectedly waved his arm and shot a sleeve arrow from his arm guard, hitting the main gate of the branch village.
The leader of the branch village screamed, covered his eyes, and stepped back one after another.
The Turkic leader laughed ferociously, raised his mace to burn the sky, and struck the leader on the head.
Seeing that the leader of the village was about to die, a cold arrow flew silently, as fast as lightning, and hit the Turkic leader between the eyebrows.
One hit to the head!
The Turkic general felt blood mist filling the air, and his eyes were blood-red...
Observing that the deadly arrow came from Bai Fu's hand, two Hu vulture shooters among the rebels became furious. They looked at each other, raised their bows and nocked arrows, and shot at Bai Fu together.
The arrow came through the air, still several feet away from Bai Fu, and Bai Fu immediately sensed it.
Bai Fu's hand was like plucking a string, and he shot two arrows at the same time.
"Qiang!", four arrows collided, and sparks shot out.
The two barbarian eagle shooters were about to shoot the second arrow when two cold arrows flew towards them, drawing a strange arc and spiraling out from behind their heads silently. When the two cold arrows approached the target, they suddenly accelerated in a spiral, like hawks.
It swooped down, as fast as lightning, and shot into the back of the heads of the two eagle shooters.
"puff!"
One arrow to the head!
Bai Fu's Xunkan Qi completely reborn the shooting method. The two strands of Qi, one fast and one slow, one square and one round, are intertwined and produce twisting force. The trajectory of the arrow is incredible and difficult to guard against.