Chapter 39: The Battle of Pingxiang

"Insidious! Cunning! Li Damu roared angrily in the tent, and kicked over a few cases with a big foot raised, "Captain, you give the order, I will be the first to attack the city and slaughter Guo Dian's bastard!" ”

Yan Bei knelt beside the couch, his fists slammed on the ground, the leather armor and iron armor on his body were removed, and the fur jacket was half lifted and tied to his body, revealing his left arm and half of his chest. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info lying on the sickbed was Zhang Leigong, who didn't know his life and death, and his exposed body was bandaged with washed linen.

There was a feather arrow in front of Yan Bei, and the Caihou paper on the feather arrow had been opened, and there was no handwriting except for the blood stains.

The city was full of arrows, and in an instant, it enveloped the position of Lei Gong, and the horse was immediately shot to death, and then Lei Gong was shot into a hedgehog...... Despite wearing thick iron armor and rhino leather armor, six feathered arrows tore through the fur coat and rhino leather armor at the right angle, burrowing into the gaps in the iron armor.

The back was only a small injury by the feather arrow, Lei Gong, who was born as a tenant of a large family, wielded a hoe and a firewood knife all the year round, and had a fairly solid latissimus dorsi, and the arrows could only nail into the muscles after tearing the leather jacket and leather armor without hurting the bones. The wound that really made Lei Gong faint appeared in the lower half of his body. The arrows killed the horse, and the heavy corpse of the horse deformed and broke the iron armor and stuck it in his legs, tearing open large wounds, causing him severe blood loss.

If it weren't for Yan Bei, who was driving the horse, to save him from the rain of arrows he shot vigorously, Zhang Leigong would already be a dead corpse.

But even if Yanbei paid the price of the injury to his left arm to rescue Zhang Leigong from a place of death, a large amount of blood loss still made him half a dead man, unconscious and wandering in front of the ghost gate.

The group of fighting men did their best to remove the arrows and paste the herbs on the wounds all over his body to stop the bleeding, but whether they can really survive can only depend on Lei Gong's personal will to survive.

These men who once cursed the heavens and died, now pray in their hearts for the gods and Buddhas, just to take back the life of Lei Gong from the hands of King Yama.

Yanbei really didn't think that Guo Dian would order someone to shoot random arrows at Zhang Leigong, who was just delivering a message.

He and Guo Dian's lieutenant Gao Lan were as naΓ―ve as Gao Dian, believing that even if the two armies were fighting, Guo Dian should not anger the envoy even if he was a rebel...... Now Yanbei understands that it is not Guo Dian who is wrong, but he who is wrong.

The so-called military struggle is to do everything, otherwise what is the use of those tactics?

The art of war is a trick, it cares about people's hearts and human nature. For the sake of victory, unscrupulous means!

"Captain, give the order, let's go kill those bastards!"

Several cronies jumped to their feet angrily, but Yan Bei got up very calmly to cover Zhang Leigong with the quilt, turned around and shook his head, "No, we don't send troops...... Everything was according to the plan, besieging the three gates without attacking, and Sun Qingdu led 400 horse troops to ambush in a dangerous place outside the north gate. ”

"School ...... Officer! This revenge will not be avenged? Li Damu got his name because of his big eyes, and at this time, he was even more angry with a pair of copper bell eyes, and said angrily: "We are not ashamed of this blood? They shot Lei Gong half to death, and most of them won't survive! ”

Li Damu and Zhang Leigong are the closest in the ten-mile camp outside the south gate, and at this time, seeing that Pao Ze was shot in an inhuman shape, how can he not be angry in his heart?

"You don't want to fight?" The anger in Yan Bei's heart was hard to discharge, how could he not be angry, and his eyes widened at the moment, as if he was fighting cocks, he pointed his finger at Lei Gong and said angrily to Li Damu: "He listened to my order to deliver the message, but he was shot like this, I braved the rain of arrows to rescue him, and with a sigh of relief, Lei Gong smirked at me with a mouth full of blood, saying that he got the letter...... If you don't get angry with me, my heart is like a stone, doesn't it know that it hurts? ”

Yan Bei roared angrily, his face was red, his neck was thick, his eyes were red and he was almost in tears, he turned his head and sighed: "But where can I give the order, Guo Dian wants me to be angry when he kills Lei Gong, and it is clear that he is waiting for us to storm the city...... What's going on now? We surrounded three gates, but he had to guard four gates, and he could give me a maximum of three hundred defenders at one gate...... We are twice as strong as him, and if we attack it, we will win! But now to attack, we can only attack one, but he has thousands of defenders! ”

"If we don't fight, just go to surround him, but he is the one who is anxious! He is too guarded, and other counties can't wait so long. Yan Beiyue said more energetically, pointed to the formation of the city on the ground and said: "Now he is in the light and we are in the dark, and after tonight we will be able to surround him three gates...... If we don't attack today, he will attack the camp at night, and we will guard this side, and the two gates around it will be able to attack. As long as he dares to go out of the city tonight, his head will hang on the head of Pingxiang City tomorrow! ”

Li Damu was stunned by what Yan Bei said, to be honest, he couldn't understand what Yan Bei said, but he felt that it made sense, and asked slowly: "Captain...... You tell me, why don't you surround four gates, you have to surround three gates, we have enough soldiers! ”

"The siege of the master must be que, and the meaning of the half-crossing attack is the same, what you want is to fight for life and not to die. You say that others beat you and leave you a way out, do you just want to run? If there is no way out, do you just want to fight to the death, our casualties are different. Yan Bei said and nodded: "I know you want to ask me what to do if the enemy has run away, then there is no Sun Qing's horse team guarding outside the north gate, the enemy must be lightly armed if they want to escape, can people outrun the horses?" In the end, it's still a death, but the pressure on us is much less. ”

Li Damu smiled embarrassedly, and then listened to Yan Bei's explanation a little dumbfounded, thinking carefully in his heart that this was indeed the truth, nodded and looked at Yan Bei with a strange look and said: "Captain, captain, you are more insidious than Guo Dian, don't you ...... I mean resourceful! ”

"Okay, give me an order, let the soldiers secretly send all the ladders to Wang Yi and Jiang Jin, let them all give Lao Tzu a good rest, and at night when they hear the shouts of killing, they will attack the city by themselves, and there will be a maximum of one hundred defenders in the city. If the night is peaceful, the rooster will attack the city when it is dark. Yan Bei explained the deployment, and said viciously: "Tell our soldiers, leave the sentry, and all the others go to sleep, wake up at night and rush to the cloud ladder to guard against a sneak attack, and launch a general attack on the fourth watch day without a sneak attack." ”

When the rooster crows, it is the ugly time and the fourth watch, and the ugly time corresponds to one to three o'clock in the morning, the sky is the darkest, and people are sleepy and tired.

"Whether Guo Dian dares to come to steal the camp or not, let's make enough preparations, the Chinese army dug a trap for me in a large open space, the front army let go of the empty door, and the military tent surrounded the trap and let the soldiers sleep with a crossbow for me!" Yan Bei turned his head and gritted his teeth to look at Lei Gong who was on the sickbed and said, "Lei Gong will not die, tomorrow I will tie up the best medical craftsman in the entire Julu County here to treat his injuries...... I want him to open his eyes and see the curtain of the Pingxiang County Government Office and the head of Guo Dian! ”

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The Battle of Pingxiang broke out in the south of the city in the middle of the night.

Guo Dian led the team to raid, and the six hundred people who dared to die were selected to run ten miles lightly in the moonlight, and touched the gate of the Yanbei camp.

In the end, it is a rebel, whether it is the Qiang thieves in Liangzhou or the Yellow Turbans in the Central Plains or the rebels in Jizhou, they are all the same virtue. ’

Thinking like this, Guo Dian tied sackcloth to the iron shoes on the soles of his feet, and whispered an order to the left and right: "No matter what the situation is, directly enter the Chinese army and kill the thief, and retreat!" ”

The left and right dead soldiers whispered to promise, even if they were selected dead soldiers, in the face of heavy military formations, who could be as calm as water? It's just that they all have courage at this time.

No matter how battle-hardened a man is, when he goes to battle, he will have fear in his heart, and this fear is not because of the strength of the enemy, but only because of ...... Reverence for life and death.

The crossbowmen shot at several sentries at the gate of the camp, and then six hundred people who dared to die all came out and rushed straight to the big tent of the Chinese army.

Accompanied by the chaotic sound, the military tents on both sides of the camp gate had the sound of soldiers squirming, and these brave men in Pingxiang City, regardless of the number of people, overturned the brazier and rushed towards the Chinese army regardless of the number of people...... They had only one purpose, to kill the leaders of the thieves in the largest tents, and the rest of the thieves would naturally break themselves.

Guo Dian also thought so, he saw with his own eyes how Yanbei relied on his personal prestige to suppress the entire army that was about to collapse, such a rebel leader alive is a threat to the entire Han Dynasty, as long as he gets rid of him, this battle will be won!

The road to the enemy camp was smooth, which was too easy for Guo Dian, because the camp tent of the thief's subordinates was too casual, as if it was for the main general to run out of the camp quickly, and what he saw as soon as he entered the enemy was the big tent of the Chinese army.

"The big tent of the thief army is ahead, and the soldiers will kill me!"

Approaching two hundred steps, Guo Dian shouted loudly, and the six hundred dead soldiers rushed forward without stopping.

At this moment, the big tent of the Chinese army suddenly opened, and a hasty figure covered with armor and sword and shield appeared, who else could it be if it wasn't Yanbei?

As soon as Yanbei came out of the tent, he saw Guo Dian leading a group of sergeants to rush towards him with a rainbow of momentum, and immediately shouted loudly with his Han sword: "The enemy army is attacking the camp, the enemy army is attacking the camp!" ”

But if you shout again at this time, where is the time?

Even if there was the sound of the armor colliding with the soldiers rushing out of the surrounding military tents, who would care about that? They all rushed towards Yanbei desperately.

At this moment, there was a 'boom', and the soldiers who rushed the fastest suddenly felt empty under their feet, and the open space in front of the entire Chinese army's tent of more than 50 steps suddenly sank, revealing a large pit more than ten steps wide and nearly 100 steps long, and the pit was full of upside-down spears, reflecting the cold light of the fire!

Seeing this, the footmen hurriedly stopped, but where could they still stop at this time?

One by one, they fell into the pit one after another, and ended up with a spear piercing through them.

"Quick! Where is the crossbowman, shoot him, shoot him! ”

After more than fifty steps, Guo Dian hurriedly shouted to the crossbowman, and several foot soldiers with crossbows could stop the momentum and shoot towards Yanbei.

Doo doo doe!

Yan Bei raised his right arm and blocked all the crossbow arrows, and the ambitious face chuckled at Guo Dian with mockery, and then shouted: "Where is the crossbowman!" ”

Suddenly, all the military tents from the big tent of the Chinese army to the gate of the camp collapsed, and hundreds of rebels armed with strong crossbows suddenly rushed out, and they shot straight out with their hands, and then hundreds of rebels with spears formed a line formation, and drove the county soldiers under the command of Guodian towards the pit from behind.

At this moment, Guo Dian looked back suddenly, and he heard the sound of killing coming from the direction of the east and west gates of Pingxiang City behind him, and he couldn't help but turn to ashes with horror on his face...... He was defeated, he lost the soldiers, he lost Pingxiang, and he lost his own life!