Chapter 898 Nanyang Raiders

In order to avoid a passive situation on the Jinghu battlefield in the future, Wu Jue was bound to win Nanyang, and in order to take Nanyang, he launched a series of offensives in Fangzhou and Jinzhou, that is, in the south of Henan Province, and drove all the active Chai soldiers and horses in this area to the north, completely cutting off the passage for Chai to enter the Jinghu area. As Ding****'s offensive against Nanyang became more and more intense, Chai Jin, who was guarding Nanyang, was almost unable to bear it. Nanyang was the core of the four wars of the Central Plains in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and after the rule of Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, Cao Cao and other powerful people, Nanyang was built extremely strong, second only to Xiangyang City. However, such a strong city defense, after a few days, has been destroyed, and in some places the battlements have collapsed. Ding **** really spent a lot of money this time, and the thunderbolts and thunderbolts that cost a lot of money to create were all poured into the city, and they didn't seek to kill, but only to destroy the city defense as much as possible and reduce the pressure on the attack.

Nanyang's defensive strength is getting weaker and weaker, but the momentum of Ding**** is getting stronger and stronger, and near evening, Ding****'s offensive is slightly weaker, all because the generals of the Dingguo Army gathered together. Wu Jue held the bookcase, his eyes sharp, "Judging from the current situation, the defensive force of Nanyang has been almost destroyed, especially in the west, and the enemy army has no signs of increasing troops. Therefore, we must take advantage of the situation to take Nanyang City in one fell swoop, now listen to the general's order, attack the city overnight tonight, Liu Teng, Zheng Biao, you two are responsible for the main attack on the west, no matter what, to open a gap, success or failure is tonight, do not break Nanyang, swear not to return to the army. ”

"Don't break Nanyang, swear not to return to the army" The generals stood up straight, their faces were solemn, this is an oath, and it also means that tonight Nanyang will be the most tragic night in recent times, and this battle will eventually be decided.

Just after the unitary time, the defenders of Nanyang have not yet buried the pot to cook, and the people stationed in the west were suddenly attacked, this time the attack came violently and sharply, countless cloud ladders came up, and the bow and crossbow under the city and the thunderbolt fire thunder cooperated to suppress, and the strong crossbow and thunderbolt fire thunder bloomed at the head of the city, causing great damage to the enemy. The people defending the city couldn't lift their heads when they were hit so violently by the ****, and when the bows and crossbows and thunderbolts stopped, they found that there were many **** figures in the city. In order to take Nanyang, Zheng Biao also fought hard, he directly picked out a death squad of 1,000 people, and these people were directly responsible for the first wave of attacks. In the past, as soon as the siege personnel arrived at the city, the bow and crossbow suppression would immediately stop to prevent accidental injury, but this time, it did not stop, but waited until the thousand-man death squad all pounced. During this period, many death squad soldiers died under their own crossbows, but their sacrifice was worth it, at least more than 600 people rushed forward intact, more than 600 death squads, if gathered together, the blow to Nanyang City Defense was huge. The distance of about a dozen zhang of the west city wall was seized by the **** death squad, and they divided left and right, attacking both sides, and widening the gap bigger and bigger.

Then a large number of Ding**** main forces ascended the ladder to the top of the city, and for a time there was a lot of noise in the west of Nanyang, and there were loopholes everywhere. More than 2,000 people stationed in the southwest direction were completely trapped by Ding****, and most of the Chai soldiers and horses stationed in Nanyang were Chai Keyan's old department, so they were loyal to the Chai family. In the face of such a difficult situation in time, these Chai soldiers still guarded the southwest passage tightly. In just half an hour, Ding **** rushed up one by one, and most of the places have been occupied by Ding ****. Nanyang West City Wall, from the city to the city head of a total of six roads, now only the last road in the southwest is in their own hands. If all the roads are lost, and the soldiers do not come immediately, the so-called counterattack can only be a dream.

"Commander Xu, the enemy army has broken through the middle corridor and is rushing towards this side, and the general's men are all killed" A soldier's face was covered with blood, his armor was seriously damaged, and his expression was very embarrassed. Xu Ting tried to calm himself, he could feel the panic of the soldiers around him, even he was afraid. Ding****'s attack is like a tide wave after wave, and now the full house is also killed, and only he is left in the entire southwest Yongdao, "Brothers, block the Yongdao, the Queen Mother treats me well, if you leave at this time, isn't it ungrateful, abandoned by people and gods?" Brothers, as long as we can hold on, Nanyang will still be ours. ”

Xu Ting's remnants were divided into two groups of people, one group of people guarded the city, and the other group of people blocked the road, in the narrow road, the two sides relied on courage, and at this time, the local strength advantage of the **** could not be brought into play, everyone rushed forward desperately, and it was up to who fell first. A **** soldier with a steel knife in his left hand and a thick shield in his right hand, just rushed up, two Chai soldiers jumped over, held him and dragged him inside, and the poor shield hand was directly hacked to death by the crazy Chai soldiers. The road is too narrow, up to three people side by side, the kind of front shield of the ****, the tactics of spear stabbing in the rear can not be played at all, and later, the Chai soldiers directly threw the dead bodies of both sides into the road, and the advancement of the **** brought more difficulties. The city investment has made progress, and the person in charge of attacking the Yongdao is unable to move an inch, Zheng Biao came to the outside of the Yongdao in a huff, and scolded, "It's all a bunch of waste, the other party is just such a few people, and you have not made any progress at all." You are all pigs, go, go to the city and grab all the flammable materials, and set fire to Lao Tzu, I don't believe it, these thieves are still impregnable? ”

Several dogs who were all scolded were bloody, and after being sprayed for a while, several people hurriedly led people to the city to grab things, and for a while, the people of Xicheng were tossed by chickens and dogs. At first, they thought that Ding**** was here to kill people and set fires, but it turned out that these people were here to grab firewood, and many people's firewood houses were directly swept away by the crazy Ding**** soldiers. The people of Nanyang were confused, and it was the first time they had seen people robbing firewood houses with sheep and cattle and robbing money. No matter how funny this behavior is, it has inadvertently relaxed the hearts of the people of Nanyang, at least many people no longer think that Ding **** is a flood beast, because in Chai's propaganda, Ding **** is a group of thugs, killing people when they see them, and robbing them when they see money.

Block the firewood in the Yongdao, light the fire, the fire is running up along the Yongdao, some of the **** soldiers also use their brains, when throwing firewood, they specially pick up those damp throws, making the smoke billowing in the Yongdao, and the Chai soldiers hiding above are smoked to tears, because there is everything burned, so it is also accompanied by a pungent smell. In the narrow corridor, the smoke could not disperse for a long time, and the soldiers under Xu Ting's command were so smoked that they couldn't open their eyes. In the end, because many people couldn't stand it, they rushed out of the city like crazy, and were caught by the **** who was blocked there. After two hours of vicious fighting, Xu Ting still couldn't wait for reinforcements, as Xu Ting's remnants were wiped out, the entire west city wall of Nanyang was taken down, and more **** soldiers began to enter Nanyang from the west gate.

One bad news after another came to his ears, but Chai Jin couldn't do anything, because he was facing Wu Jue, who might not be as stable as Niu Gao and Han Shizhong in commanding the war. Many times, Wu Jue's attack is sharp and strong, and the flaws will increase, but once Wu Jue makes a breakthrough, the situation will be difficult to recover. If you think of fighting as a snowball, then Wu Jue is the one with the strongest snowball ability, because his sharp attack method is the most efficient, while Niu Gao and Han Shizhong's playing style is often steady, but the speed will be slower. Several commanders supported each other and fled, and one of them almost cried and said, "General, the western city wall has all fallen, and the enemy has now begun to attack the south through the southwest road, and the brothers have suffered heavy casualties. ”

Chai Jin was silent, in fact, there was only one way, and that was to retreat, but without an order, how could he dare to give up Nanyang. A rapid sound of horses' hooves sounded, which frightened several commanders, and they thought that Ding**** rushed over, so they hurriedly drew their knives and guarded, but saw that the person turned over and dismounted, and said loudly, "General, letter from Luoyang, letter from Luoyang." ”

Finally there was news, Chai Jin didn't wait for the scout to come, he had already greeted him personally, snatched the letter, and looked at it quickly. After reading the letter, Chai Jin was not happy at all, if Luoyang's letter could come a few hours earlier, it would be great, "Everyone, Luoyang has an order, and we will abandon Nanyang and retreat to the area of Funiu Mountain to garrison." ”

For some reason, as soon as they heard the order to retreat, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and in the past few days, everyone was frightened by Wu Jue's mad dog-style play. If it weren't for the military order, in fact, many people wanted to run away, who would want to fight against such Wu Jue. In fact, Wu Jue was not so crazy before, and this kind of fighting style regardless of casualties has hardly been seen, after all, Wu Jue is also a famous general in Guanzhong with the same name as Niu Gao and Han Shizhong. It is precisely because of the understanding of Wu Jue, so the defenders of Nanyang are very unsuitable for Wu Jue's unusually style of play, and now they can finally withdraw, but Chai Jin is also facing a problem, that is, what to do with the people in the south, now the **** has bitten the defenders of Nancheng, if the retreat is ordered at this time, I am afraid that the **** will bite up immediately, and this retreat will turn into a big rout. After thinking about it, Chai Jin was ruthless, "The soldiers and horses in Dongcheng will withdraw first, and in addition, there will be more fires on the streets and more obstacles." ”

Everyone heard Chai Jin's order, no one said anything more, everyone understood that now that Ding **** has attacked Nanyang, it is impossible to withdraw unharmed, and in the end some people are still needed to go to the back of the palace and drag Ding **** to death. Now it seems that the soldiers and horses in the south can only be abandoned. Due to the very fast speed of the Ding**** attack, the Nanyang defenders did not dare to delay, and a group of Chai soldiers retreated from the east to the north to withdraw from Nanyang, in order to block the pursuit of the **** as much as possible, the Nanyang defenders set fire to many places in the city and pushed them to the wall. With the withdrawal of the main force of the Chai clan from Nanyang, the remnants of the troops stationed in the south also fell into a desperate situation, and in the hopeless situation, most of the Chai soldiers chose to surrender.

On the seventh day of the first month of the third year of Taikang, Wu Jue's troops finally won the entire Nanyang City after days of hard fighting. After taking Nanyang, Wu Jue did not pursue Chai Jin's defeated army, causing Chai Jin to safely withdraw to Funiu Mountain, and build a new defense line in the area of Funiu Mountain relying on the terrain. Funiu Mountain is rolling and treacherous, and it is actually a very good strategic location. In the early years, if Wang Qing, a giant of Huaixi, could realize the importance of Funiu Mountain and build a pass in Funiu Mountain, he would not have been wiped out so easily. Wu Jue did not pursue, let the Chai clan retreat to Funiu Mountain, not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't, he had already done his best to storm Nanyang City in a few days, and the soldiers' endurance had reached the limit, and they really had no ability to continue to launch a new wave of offensives. Taking Nanyang also made Zhao Yougong, who was sitting in Bianliang City, greatly relieved, with Nanyang City, no matter how the war changes in the future, at least he will not be at a disadvantage. With Nanyang, there are multiple options.

Since the Chai clan launched the Battle of Jianmen Pass, Zhao Yougong's life has also been very difficult, but fortunately, he has made a breakthrough in Nanyang. On the second day of the first month, commanded by Yang Zaixing, Xiao Yue, Pang He and Lin Chong, launched a common-sense attack on the Chai defense line in Fengxiang Mansion and Fenglingdu, but Chai obviously had already responded, and after trying to attack several times only with results, Ding **** had to withdraw. At least, in the cash segment, Ding **** has not broken through the absolute advantage of the south bank of the Yellow River in one fell swoop.

Bianliang Chu Palace, the people who have come in and out in the past few days have never been broken, from time to time there are horses parked at the gate of the palace, Xiao Zhiyun has also been helping Zhao Yougong deal with urgent matters, "Now that Nanyang has been taken, Chai Keyan took the initiative to give up Nanyang, thinking that he was unwilling to reduce Zhengzhou's defense strength." I don't think it's time to attack Zhengzhou now. ”

"Yes, judging from Chai's series of actions, it has been prepared for a long time, and the soldiers and horses on the Tiger Pass and Zhengzhou have not decreased. It's enough, I have to trouble you to go to Xiangyang, if there is only Wu Jinqing in Xiangyang, I am afraid that there will be omissions" Zhao Yougong also felt that it was not appropriate to launch the Zhengzhou war at this time, although the Chai clan attacked Shuzhong, but the eastern defense did not show flaws, and the cost of attacking Zhengzhou was too great. The overall situation is not bad now, and there is no need to take risks.

The Dingguo army captured Nanyang, but the progress of the Chai clan in the Bashu area was extremely smooth, losing the natural danger of Shu Dao, and there were not enough troops to deal with the joint attack of the Chai clan and the two tigers. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, shortly after the fall of Nanyang, Ye Dahu and Gao Hu approached Chengdu from the east and south directions, and at this time, Song Jiang's main army withdrew from the Jianchang Mansion of Dali State, and it was impossible to support Chengdu Mansion in time.

In the face of such a predicament, what should Wu Yong do, and how should he deal with himself? (To be continued.) )