Chapter 921: People can't escape
Hai Dongqing is a big disaster, as long as he lives, he may not know what moths will be born. He fled from the island back then, and there was today's catastrophe, and this time he must not be allowed to slip away. and ran away from Hai Dongqing, even if the counterinsurgency is successful, it is not perfect, Lin Jue does not want to leave regrets.
In view of this, Lin Jue set a trap. He wanted to invite Jun into the urn, and use the unique city structure of Xingren Mansion to introduce Hai Dongqing's soldiers and horses into the city and wipe them out. Although there are risks in doing so, Lin Jue believes that the risks are controllable and the results are expected.
When Heungin Mansion was upgraded from a state city to a government city, the city outline was expanded, and a new city wall was built on the periphery of the old city. Such a pattern is a natural cage. Simply lure the opponent into the outer city, tighten the pocket mouth of the outer city, and arrange enough men to defend the inner city wall, so that the opponent can be trapped in it and strangled. This is the method that Lin Jue proposed at the beginning when discussing how to use Xingren Mansion to resist the enemy.
Of course, Guo Kun and others have doubts, Guo Kun's idea is to be steady, and repelling Hai Dongqing is a victory, not whether he can catch him. And Lin Jue's idea is that Guo Xu can't leave a little credit. This meal had to be eaten and wiped clean, and Guo Xu was not allowed to drink even a mouthful of soup. Isn't he going to borrow a knife to kill someone? Aren't they still thinking about their own lives? That completely embarrassed Guo Xu and made him unable to get anything. If Hai Dongqing slipped away with the remnants, wouldn't it be cheaper for Guo Xu to give him a chance to catch Hai Dongqing. This will never happen.
Guo Kun also learned the previous lesson, and his brother-in-law's strategies were difficult for him to understand, but it was obvious that he couldn't keep up with his brother-in-law's train of thought. The previous opposition almost caused a catastrophe, so it was better to follow my brother-in-law's train of thought. It's better to hide the ugliness than to hide it, Lin Jue said that he can do it, but he still shouldn't insist on it. So, Guo Kun complied with all the arrangements, and more than 3,000 people were separated from the 12,000 soldiers and horses guarding the city to defend the inner city wall, and according to Lin Jue's requirements, the obstacles in the gate hole of the eastern city were emptied, and even the iron bars that sealed the door were removed. Even if the city gate was not burned by the Holy Spirit, the city gate would not be able to withstand the impact of the opponent's car.
Lin Jue even devised a backup plan, if the bandits could not break through the city gate, Lin Jue planned to deliberately send people to set fire to the city tower, pretending to be a civil strife to open the city gate and welcome guests. In short, if you don't trick Hai Dongqing in, you will never give up.
This is also the reason why the opponent did not feel much strength in the counterattack when he stormed the city gate. The soldiers on the tower of the city were thundering and raining, and the attacks below were not fierce enough. It's all acting.
Of course, Lin Jue didn't expect that there would be appearances and performances from the Holy Elders Regiment and the Holy Spirit Regiment. But I don't know if the old members of the Holy Elder Order who showed up for the Holy Sect and were willing to be the stepping stones of flesh and blood knew that their sacrifice was completely meaningless, and that the other party would create an opportunity for their own side to attack the city, and their death would be completely redundant, would they feel that they were stupid and home.
After Hai Dongqing entered the city, he quickly realized that something was unusual, and when he learned that the layout of the city was that all his soldiers and horses were trapped in the ribbon area between the two city walls, Hai Dongqing smelled an extremely dangerous breath. But he didn't panic, with 20,000 cathars by his side, he didn't need to worry.
"Pass my order to attack south along the inner wall and get out of the eastern city. Look for gaps in the walls of the inner city. There weren't many defenders in the inner city, so I don't believe they had enough men to hold the entire inner city walls. Hai Dongqing ordered sharply.
Hai Dongqing's idea is actually reasonable, when the right time to attack the city, the number of defenders on the wall of the east city is tens of thousands, which means that it is impossible for many people to defend the inner city wall. Since the inner wall facing the east gate was guarded by archers, the rest of the city must have been empty. What we have to do at this moment is to get out of the scope of the eastern city, take advantage of the gap where the defenders mobilize troops and horses to the inner city, find the empty place, break through the inner city in one fell swoop, and blossom in the city. It also avoids the dilemma of being trapped in the middle of two city walls.
More than 20,000 cathars and congregants were ordered to immediately rush south along the city walls. Along the way, they occupied several barracks and several empty yamen, and met no resistance. However, after rushing out of the land of Rich, a high wall stood in front of them. It was a newly built wall made of sandbags. Across the two walls, it was like a high cliff blocking the way, blocking the passage of the bandits to the south. The sandbag wall is more than three zhang high and more than one zhang wide. There were also hundreds of repeaters stationed above. When the cathars rushed to the front, the crossbows from above were activated, and the arrows rained down, and more than 100 bandits were shot to death, forcing them to dare not approach.
Hai Dongqing was a little panicked after receiving the report, this wall was obviously a temporary obstacle, blocking the passage between the two walls. There are crossbowmen stationed above, and if you order an attack at this moment, although it takes some effort to attack it, it is still impossible for the army to pass through here. In addition, the ladder and other objects have long been discarded outside the city, and it will be a huge price to capture this sandbag fortification wall, because it can only be climbed with bare hands, which is simply a live target for the opponent. What's more, the delay time is extremely precious, once the soldiers and horses on the opponent's eastern wall are deployed, it will be impossible to break through the defense of the inner wall.
"U-turn and head north." Hai Dongqing decisively gave the order to turn around and attack to the north, since the road in the south is different, there is no need to entangle, and it is also feasible to attack to the north.
The rear team of the cathars changed to the front team, turned around and fought back along the road they came, and attacked again north on the passage between the two walls. However, when they reached the outside of Rich, a black sandbag wall once again came into view, blocking the passage to the north. Like the previous sandbag wall, it was just as tall and wide, with a dense crowd of crossbowmen above, eyeing you closely.
Hai Dongqing sweated on his body, and when he was thinking about countermeasures, bad news came again, and the gate of Dongcheng was recaptured by officers and soldiers. At this moment, thousands of officers and soldiers are piling up sandbags next to the city gate cave and sealing the exit of the city gate. At this moment, Hai Dongqing really realized that there was a big trouble.
At this moment, if you have a pair of eyes that can look down from the sky, you can see the situation of the entire battlefield clearly. The narrow area between the inner and outer walls of Xingren Mansion is densely packed with soldiers and horses of the Apologetics. The passage to the north and south of the two walls was blocked by a huge fortification wall. The more than 20,000 soldiers and horses of the cathars were all trapped in a rectangular box three miles long and three miles wide, like a group of wild beasts in a cage.
Lin Jue mobilized the eight thousand young men in the city last night, and built two high walls in a few hours, connecting the inner and outer city walls. The entire inner and outer wall area of the East City has been turned into a trapped beast cage. In Lin Jue's words, this is a simple urn city that was built quickly. As soon as the city gate is opened, the bandits pour in and then block the exit, which is a real situation of closing the door and beating dogs and catching turtles in the urn.
This has the added advantage of being able to defend the inner walls with a small number of archers. Because it is not the entire inner wall that needs to be defended, but only a small section of the wall. Three thousand archers only need to defend in a small area of less than three miles, the range of movement is not large, and the firepower of the soldiers is sufficient. After blocking the passages on both sides, they limited the range of activities of the bandits to this three-mile range, and if they wanted to attack the inner city, they could only attack this section of the city wall that was defended by personnel. And with these two horizontal walls, in fact, the defenders on the eastern wall can quickly reinforce the inner city wall through the passage at the top of the two walls. In fact, the crossbowmen on the two sand-wrapped walls were the reinforcements on the outer city walls.
This is Lin Jue's entire plan. Please enter the urn, close the door and beat the dogs, and wipe out Hai Dongqing and his last die-hard bandits, and Hai Dongqing will not escape.
"Holy Father, what should I do? We had nowhere to go and were trapped by them. Holy Father, think of a solution. The apologists beside him were in a panic and shouted one after another.
Hai Dongqing's heart was in turmoil, and he roared angrily: "What are you panicking about? We still have 20,000 troops, where are they coming? What if they surround us? What can I do? Don't panic, wait for me to think of a countermeasure. ”
Everyone hurriedly said: "Okay, let's not disturb the Holy Father to find a way." Don't panic. ”
One of the apologists shouted, "Let's pray, bless the Holy Father, and come up with a solution." Come on, come on, you guys sing quickly, sing quickly. ”
A group of holy women who were dragged in by the cart hurriedly chanted in trembling voices: "Holy Father...... Greatest, invincible. The evil way is gone. Ahu that Akbaba hey, Ahu Baba that Yi'er ......"
Even these saints knew the crisis of the present situation, and they were so frightened that their voices trembled, and they even sang out of tune, which was not good at all. However, the hymn was sung, and the bandits still reflexively knelt on the ground and prayed.
Hai Dongqing sat on the horse with a frown, and when the sound of prayer rang in his ears, he was indeed relieved. In the past two years, every time these people knelt down in front of them and shouted the greatness of the Holy Father, Hai Dongqing would be greatly encouraged. As long as someone believes in him, he is not alone, and he still has strength to use. When the prayers ended, the anxious mood also calmed down, and Hai Dongqing returned to normal.
"Pass my order, storm the east gate of the inner city, and break through the inner city at any cost." Hai Dongqing shouted loudly, this is the most direct way, he can't retreat, and there is no way back, what he has to do at this moment is to storm the inner city, break through, and break this trapped situation like a cage.
"Yes! Brothers, attack! "The Guardians also know that this is the last resort, and they can only break through one place, no matter whether they are inside or outside the city, they always have to break through a wall. So he plucked up his courage and shouted loudly.