Chapter 554: Occupation
To the disappointment of the county lieutenant, the two cavalry units like earth dragons did not collide, and the cavalry force that came later began to slow down after seeing the cavalry troops led by Yuqing coming, and finally stopped completely, and one of the generals came out with a dozen personal guards and waited for the other party to arrive.
As a commander, Yuqing naturally will not rush to the front line, but the cavalry in front is not a fool, when they see that the people who come to stop the line, and the familiar banner, they will also slow down, and the front line will spread out left and right, and a small roundabout will return to their own formation. Yuqing had already seen the other party's banner clearly, and greeted him with a team of personal soldiers, and when she saw the appearance of the opponent's general, Yuqing was completely relieved.
When the two sides met, Yuqing glared at the gray-faced Qin Yan and said angrily: "General Yu, you don't send someone to inform you in advance, if you make any misunderstanding, you will be seen as a joke." "That's right, it's Yu Zhan who came.
Yu Zhan smiled embarrassedly and explained, "Aren't I in a hurry, General Yuqing, what's going on here?" ”
Yuqing didn't really want to worry about Yu Zhan, turned around and pointed to the city gate and said, "It's almost there, you guys came just in time." ”
Yu Zhan looked and saw that Li Yue's cavalry had already entered the city, and said with a depressed face: "I'm still too late to catch up." ”
Yuqing could understand Yu Zhan's mood, and said with a faint smile: "Who said it's late, Li Yue and the others have just entered the city, and it will take a while to completely occupy Pear Flower City, by the way, do you plan to stay outside the city to guard or enter the city to cooperate?" ”
Yu Zhan knew very well the relationship between Yuqing and Yuan Fang, so he naturally didn't dare to hold it up, and said with a smile: "That, I listened to the arrangement of General Yuan and General Yuqing." ”
Yuqing pursed her lips and smiled, thinking that this Yu Zhan was quite interesting, and looked in the northwest direction and asked, "It's just you people who come over?" What about the others? ”
Yu Zhan replied: "General Shi Ping and his men are still holding back the enemy's 50,000 horses, and both of us are worried about the battle situation here, so I will come over first after discussing it." ”
Yuqing nodded and said, "Okay, let's hurry over, brother-in-law, he is probably already in a hurry." ”
Next, the two sides followed their respective generals to the direction of the city gate, and at this time, Yuan Fang had already received the news and greeted him with a smile.
Yu Zhan saw Yuan Fang turn over and dismount and give a military salute, Yuan Fang pulled Yu Zhan's arm with an easy-going face and asked a few words, and after discussing it with Yuqing, he decided to give Yu Zhan a chance to let him enter the city to assist Li Yue in clearing the defenders of Lihua City, while Yuan Fang and Yuqing stayed in Xicheng and led the main force to advance to the east in a carpet manner, completely eliminating all resistance.
At the head of the city, the county lieutenant held a war knife in his hand, and retreated from the city wall under the protection of the guards, his eyes were full of disappointment, but he did not despair, he still commanded his troops to retreat while fighting, desperately resisting, although he knew that the general trend had gone, but he was still looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements by luck.
The impact of the cavalry was terrifying, Li Yue's cavalry did not slow down after rushing into Pear Blossom City, but divided the troops into three routes according to the previous plan, two of which cooperated with the infantry to pursue the defeated defenders, and the other main force was directly to the south of the city.
The so-called defeat is like a mountain, the west city is lost, the morale of the defenders of the south city has dropped to a low point, the defenders who could resist the siege of the city saw the enemy cavalry entering the city, and a steady stream of kills to the south city, suddenly panicked, kept making mistakes, and kept retreating, the result was that Qin Yan's rock army successfully killed the city wall.
Heavy infantry, that is the nightmare of ordinary infantry, the super strong defense is like wearing a turtle shell, so that the enemy has no way to start, the sword slashing at them is at most a string of sparks, the crossbow arrows shoot on their heavy armor and make a crackling sound, it can't break through people's defenses at all, only the occasional attack on the weakest face of the heavy infantry will be effective to kill, and the heavy infantry under Qin Yan's command is almost a knife, a gun and a string, so in contrast, the defenders did not last long before the whole army was defeated, and it fell for thousands of miles.
The next thing is simple, there are less than 20,000 defenders in Lihua County, Yuan Fang they have 30,000 horses, the defenders are naturally invincible, and they are defeated, Yu Zhan, according to Yuan Fang's requirements, occupy the east city gate and defend it strictly, and cooperate in the east, west and south directions, and drive the defeated defenders out of the north gate in one go.
That's right, it is to drive out and not annihilate, after all, time waits for no one, but there are still 50,000 troops outside, Yuan Fang must be deployed as soon as possible to resist the enemy's counterattack, there is no time to completely annihilate the defeated defenders, besides, after this battle, the defenders suffered heavy losses and suffered a great loss of morale, even if the defeated army of less than 10,000 people came back, it was not enough evidence. The city gates on all sides were closed again, the battlefield was cleaned, and in the city lord's mansion, Yuan Fang, Yuqing, Li Yue, and Yu Zhan arranged for each department to take turns to repair and re-arm, and at the same time posted Lu cloth to appease the people, and it was already afternoon after all this was done.
Yuan Fang took Xia Yi and a few women and a team of guards to inspect the city wall, the soldiers saluted one after another, Yuan Fang greeted them one by one, and they would laugh a few words when they met someone who could chat, and the atmosphere was quite relaxed.
However, when it came to the north city wall where the female soldiers were stationed, the atmosphere changed, no longer relaxed, and became silent, Yuan Fang found that many female soldiers were pale, terrifyingly white, and even some hid in the corner of the wall and trembled slightly, Yuqing was very embarrassed when she saw this, and was trying to teach a lesson but was stopped by Yuan Fang, shook her head slightly and said: "Don't push too hard, they are experiencing war for the first time, Yang Xing and I are not as good as them at the beginning, give them some time." Yuqing didn't refute, she also knew this.
Yuan Fang walked up to a female soldier sitting under the wall battlement and sat down, and said with an easy-going face, "What's your name?" The female soldier was still immersed in the fear after the war, and she didn't notice anyone approaching at all, and when she heard Yuan Fang's voice, she was immediately startled, and subconsciously pulled out the war knife on her waist and looked at Yuan Fang.
Xia Yi, Ye Qingru, Huo Bingyan and Lin Menghan reacted very quickly, and protected Yuan Fang in the middle for the first time, Xia Yi and Ye Qingru even pressed the female soldier without saying a word, their faces were extremely ugly, and at the same time, their eyes were full of sympathy, they had all experienced this, and they understood that this female soldier would have such a reaction.
Yuan Fang waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't be nervous." Xia Yi and Ye Qingru saw that the female soldier's eyes had regained clarity, and slowly let go of their hands and retreated to Yuan Fang's side.
The female soldier had already come back to her senses, remembering that she had almost done something to her brother-in-law just now, and she was terrified, and stammered: "Yes, I'm sorry, sister, brother-in-law, I didn't mean to." ”
Yuan Fang smiled easily, walked up to the female soldier and asked, "What's your name?" ”
The female soldier timidly replied, "I, my name is Li Wen." ”
Yuan Fang nodded and said, "Well, Li Wen, it's a very quiet and nice name." ”4610