Chapter 38 The Siege of Pingxiang

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In a short period of time, Yanbei relied on Zhen Yan's professor and his unforgettable ingenuity to complete the whole chapter in a hurry, and mastered more knowledge than Zhen Yan imagined.

Because Yan Bei had already written many words and several articles before he became literate, all Zhen Yan needed was to tell him what to read each word.

Tao Qian's collection of books covers a wide range, and through his collection of books, Yanbei also understands Tao Qian's past to a large extent, because some bamboo slips are not books, but Tao Qian's past records.

This Danyang man is not a serious martial artist, but a small wealthy family, and his participation in the Yellow Turban Rebellion is only in response to the call of the imperial court.

In the early years, Tao Qian served as a magistrate in the county as a living person, and then raised Maocai, two county magistrates before and after, crusading against the Yellow Turban when he was in office, and following Huangfu Song in the second year of Zhongping to crusade against the Liangzhou Qiang Rebellion, this time he was entered into the court to get the official position of Lang, but was stabbed by Yanbei on the way.

Maocai is also Xiucai, but it is just to avoid the name of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, which is actually a meaning.

Tao Qian, who is old and strong, is a figure who is both civil and military.

Therefore, his collection of books is also very messy, whether it is Huang Lao's learning or the method of battle formation.

Huang Lao and Confucianism, even if Yanbei is very intelligent, he can't understand it deeply without the teaching of a well-informed gentleman, but the knowledge of the battle array has something to learn because of practice.

It's a pity that because Tao Qian's books are many and miscellaneous, Yan Bei will only write a few of them silently, and only one of these chapters is about war...... Therefore, Yanbei does not know much about the tactics.

But the one he knew was called "Sun Wubing's Book: Military Struggle".

When we reached ten miles outside Pingxiang City, it was officially noon, and Yanbei came to camp in place and not attack.

Jiang Jin and the others were puzzled, Yan Bei smiled silently, and just ordered the soldiers to bury the pot and make rice, and not to attack today.

In the distance, the Chinese character banner on the city of Pingxiang hunts in the wind, here is close to the Taihang Mountains, the rainy day is accompanied by the peak of the cloud mountain fog, it is simply the dry spring in the north, otherwise the cold and biting will make the siege particularly difficult.

But even now, Yanbei is rampant in the military formation, and there is no shortage of sergeants rubbing their hands against the steaming hot air coming from the bonfire cauldron.

In one winter, nearly half of the soldiers in Yanbei wore fur coats outside the armor, and Yanbei would rather make the soldiers inconvenient, and cotton in this era was planted as an ornamental plant by the nobles in the Western Regions, and no matter how many layers of linen clothes were worn, they could not match a fur coat. The soldiers he did not want to die for him were frozen to death in the cold wind of early spring.

Yanbei doesn't attack, but the horse team under Sun Qing can't be lazy. A group of scouts were sent out early in the morning to ambush the woodlands outside the four city gates to detect the enemy's situation, and to be ready for the enemy to attack the city.

Even if the camp was prepared, Yanbei was still worried that Guo Dian would go out of the city and take risks, and fight another battle with fewer enemies.

Other than that, he had nothing else to fear. Since Guo Dian was able to set up an ambush on the shore of the mainland, it showed that the scouts had already known that he was coming to attack Pingxiang City, and several surrounding cities were being attacked by Wang Dang and the Wuhuan people at this time, and the nearest reinforcements were already the soldiers and horses of Guangping County in the south, but they needed to cross a mountain.

What's more, Linjun will not cross the border to beg for thieves without an order, there are no reinforcements, there are only more than 1,300 defenders in the city at most, and Yanbei is sure of them.

He didn't carry much military rations, but he got enough supplies in Xiaquyang, and these grains and grass were enough for him to besiege the city for more than a month. He didn't believe he wouldn't be able to take the city in a month...... A month, at least enough for him to distinguish between victory and defeat.

There are many people in Pingxiang City, and Yan Bei is a little upset when he looks at it...... To be honest, he was reluctant to attack the city, even if the opponent only had more than 1,000 people, if the enemy was willing to defend the fortified city, he would suffer heavy casualties even if he captured the city.

"Lei Gong, go to the city and shout and tell them that there are no reinforcements, and there is no crime in surrendering to Qiu now." Yan Bei looked at the city in the distance, and saw that the soldiers were full of food and drink, so he stepped on the horse, waved the horsewhip, pointed to the city head, and said to Zhang Leigong: "If you don't want to defend the city, stay at home, why should Qianshou be embarrassed...... If anyone offers Guo Dian's head, the reward will be one hundred. ”

Lei Gong had a loud voice, although he was beaten by Yanbei two days ago, he didn't have any mustard in his heart, so he nodded and crossed the horse with a grin.

Looking at Lei Gong's back, Yan Bei called Wang Yi and Jiang Jin again: "You two will each lead 700 people, set up ambushes in the east and south of the city, go far away so as not to let the enemy see it, and quietly set up camp five miles outside the city tonight without lighting the open fire." Don't bring any baggage, for I will have someone bring it to you in the evening. ”

The two agreed and went to order troops, and Yanbei left the Chinese army to Li Damu to take care of, and followed Lei Gong with his galloping horse.

He wants to see what kind of person Guo Dian is.

Guo Dian is Huangfu Song's old subordinate, and I don't know how many times the two sides have experienced a large battle with more than 100,000 men and horses. In his hometown of Liangzhou, a tribe and a tribe can have a fight of thousands of people because of a cow, and the county guards sometimes pull out people to fight if they don't like it, which can be described as a serious man who kills to the age of forty.

Guo Dian is also sometimes complacent about his age, because in his hometown, few men live to be forty years old and still have good limbs. In that place where saving one's life has become a luxury, a man like Guo Dian who survived can be said to have suffered enough.

In the second year of Yanxi, when Guo Dian was only in his twenties, he followed Duan Ying, one of the 'Liangzhou Sanming', to join the army and fight against the Xiqiang rebellion. After a few years, he later made meritorious contributions to the battle of Fengyi in Fengyi Mountain with Duan Ying's great breakthrough of the first zero, and successively served as the lieutenant of Lingxian County of Beidi County and the lieutenant of Beidi County.

Huangfu Song later served as the Taishou of the North and became his boss, and then continued to conquer Xiqiang and the Yellow Turban, and was finally promoted to the position of Julu Taishou.

Guo Dian stood at the head of Pingxiang City, supporting the battlements on the female wall in front of him, looking at the mighty formation laid out by Yanbei outside the south gate in the distance with disdain, he looked down on Yanbei's straw bales that did not pass through the battle array.

Originally, when Guo Dian set up an ambush on the shore of the mainland, he saw Yanbei shouting in the Chinese army from a distance, and he actually blocked the rout of the former army with his personal prestige, and he still had a high evaluation of Yanbei in his heart at that time.

Because of this, he was afraid that it would be self-defeating, so he did not dare to set up an ambush outside the city...... Now Guo Dian regretted it a little in his heart, even if he couldn't see clearly how Yanbei laid out the formation, but he knew that if he had a thousand ambush soldiers outside the city at this moment, he would be able to break Yanbei tonight!

Fighting a war is not won by relying only on the prestige of the general, let alone ...... According to that tentative raid, the generals under Yanbei's command are not bad in personal bravery, but to talk about the ability to command the troops?

Guo Dian smiled disdainfully at the head of the city.

Looking at the few horses galloping in the distance, Guo Dian said to the deputy general beside him: "Order the crossbowman to prepare, don't care what he says later, look at my warrant halfway through, and fire arrows in unison." ”

"Fu Jun...... I'm afraid that's not right. Jun Sima was a young man with a weak crown, named Gao Lan, and when he heard this, it was a little difficult to make a decision, and he replied with his fists clenched: "The two armies have not yet been killed...... Not to mention my Dahan County national soldiers. ”

Guo Dian patted the shoulder armor of the deputy general, looking at Gao Lan's young face as if he saw his young self. He frowned and said, "Do we also have to treat the rebels with the courtesy of princes?" A rebel army is a rebel army, you don't need to say anything, just exterminate it! ”

"Look at the current situation, you were also present in the ambush of the mainland Ze the day before yesterday, the combat ability of the rebel soldiers is comparable to ours, and their number is three times that of us, no matter how you fight us, it will be a test. We rely on the granary of Jiancheng without fear of besieging the city, but are there also granaries comparable to Pingxiang in the surrounding small counties? Guo Dian deliberately mentioned the deputy general, and then said: "Shooting the messenger to death will definitely make the thief leader Yanbei angry, take this opportunity to attack the city unilaterally Our pressure will be much less, as long as we hold on to the siege once, the morale of the enemy army will inevitably be greatly reduced at night!" ”

Without waiting for Guo Dian to finish speaking, Gao Ran already understood Guo Dian's good intentions to break the enemy, nodded and said: "When the enemy attacks for the first time, the garrison in the city is sufficient, and it will definitely cause great casualties to the rebels. ”

Guo Dian laughed heartily and said, "Not bad! ”

Whether it is a night attack or a surprise attack, it is necessary to select brave and brave people who dare to die, as the so-called one person is desperate and unstoppable, if you can select five hundred desperate and dare to die, even if Yanbei has two thousand sleeping soldiers in his hands, he will not be able to stop the retreat.

It only takes a rush to the battle, if there are only more than a thousand defeated soldiers left in Yanbei in the end, will he dare to come to Pingxiangcheng?

Even if he led a large group of Wuhuan men and horses to make a comeback, Guo Dian would be better to deal with, leading the people of Pingxiang to flee south, transporting all the materials, armaments, grain and grass, and burning the city to only a few slope city walls in Yanbei, let him take it to play.

When he came back, Guo Dian had already run to Guangping County...... When the people have no hometown, and there are many men who have left production, is Guo Dian still worried about how to recruit soldiers?

The armament of the entire arsenal can allow him to arm Xiang Yong, and tens of thousands of Xiang Yong may not be able to defeat the rebels at that time.

Guo Dian followed Duan Ying and Huangfu Song to fight for a lifetime, and this old man with the cunning of Liangzhou barbarians had a clear calculation in his heart!

Under the city wall, the dark-skinned Zhang Lei Gongqing sword galloped to a hundred steps away, he still had a little scheming, he didn't dare to get too close to the city for fear of being pierced by the crossbow, hiding in the distance of the strong crossbow and shouting: "Listen to the defenders in the city, my captain Yan Beinian is from the head of Qian, why bother to embarrass the head of Qian, if the city surrenders, the autumn has no crime...... Those who present the head of Guo Dian will be rewarded with 100 gold! ”

Zhang Leigong's distance was a little far, and Gao Ran was a little undecided, but Guo Dian smiled.

"This Yanbei is smarter than Guo imagined. Get a blank piece of paper and a bow and arrows! Guo Dian tied the white paper to the arrow, shot an arrow sixty steps under the city, and said loudly: "Please bring back the reply!" ”

Zhang Leigong didn't know that there was a deception, and then he looked at the bow and arrow that could only shoot sixty steps, haha laughed and drove the horse, and then he took the arrow in his hand and turned his head to hit the horse, and there was a loud shout from the city.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Immediately afterwards, Lei Gong hurriedly turned around, only to see a rain of arrows shooting towards him!