Chapter 140: The Battle of Qian County [3]
"Zhang Liao, I haven't gone to look for you yet, but you came first!"
Xiahou Yuan clenched his fists tightly all the way, since the defeat of the Liangshan army, he held back his strength to fight with Zhang Liao again to divide the victory, this time he heard that Zhang Liao led the troops to attack their hometown of Qian County, and immediately led the troops out in anger.
If it were an ordinary person, Zhang Liao was defeated in the previous time, and he might have a lower spirit, but Xiahou Yuan did not hesitate at all, but instead planned tactics against Zhang Liao's combat characteristics more diligently, in order to completely defeat this enemy. On the other hand, Cao Cao's trust in this brother of this family, although Xiahou Yuan was defeated by Zhang Liao before, he still let Xiahou Yuan lead the army to the expedition this time.
Of course, Cao Cao led the army behind to suppress the formation, and he was not afraid of Xiahou Yuan's mistakes. When the whole army heard the news of Zhang Liao's appearance in Peiguo, almost the same was happy and angry. The joy is that he doesn't have to worry about his elusiveness when he knows where Zhang Liao is, but at the same time, he is also angry that his hometown was led by Zhang Liao...... Zhang Liao's intention is obvious, that is, to attack the county.
Qiaoxian is a small place, not to mention in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, even in Peiguo, it is not a confidential location. That is, it is not near the big river or the big mountain, and the only bright spot in the strategy is about to be near the four traffic arteries, but this only needs to be stationed in a song of men and horses to block it, so why work thanklessly to attack a small city with only more than 1,000 garrisons?
For no other reason, Zhang Liao just wanted to provoke them and attract them.
But this matter can't be avoided, because as I said some time ago, Qian County controls the traffic arteries. In other words, even if Zhang Liao did not attack Qian County, Cao Jun, who wanted to bypass Jiyin County, could only come from this side, and there was no other choice.
Xiahou Yuan didn't underestimate Zhang Liao this time, although his soldiers and horses were still galloping, they did not drive too far from the armies of the East Road, like a distance of only more than ten miles, all the way to Qian County. When he approached Qian County, he immediately ordered the scouts to spill thirty miles to the east, and always reported the movements of Zhang Liao's reinforcements.
Looking at the city of Qian County, which was getting closer and closer, the faces of several Cao generals were not very good...... Zhang Liao's siege speed was too fast, obviously he came prepared, but the flag of the city had been changed in a few hours, which was naturally Zhang Liao's fast, but they didn't carry siege equipment!
A group of people rushed to the city of Qian County, looking at the two-zhang high city wall and losing their temper, only then did they remember that they didn't think that they would fight a city battle when they came, and they only thought about rescuing Qian County, and they didn't even prepare for the cloud ladder.
Okay! Tens of thousands of troops sat on the ground on three sides around the city of Qiaoxian City, looking like a group of rebels with good military discipline!
Even the military tents and construction things were all left behind, and the military baggage was brought by Xiahoudun, and in the face of such a situation, their gang could rest.
"I don't know, let's run so fast, what are we trying to do here?"
"It's useless to complain, you thought about bringing a ladder when you came!"
The generals gathered together to complain for a moment, then dispersed to lead their troops outside the gates of the city where they were stationed. It's too late to complain now, and you can only wait for Xiahoudun of the rear army to lead the troops to come before launching a siege.
As for the situation where 'Zhang Liao' in the city suddenly led his troops to kill, there is almost no possibility of existence.
"Zhang Liao is not a fool, outside the three gates is the most elite conflict soldier of our army, but I am worried that when the main force arrives, he will escape from the east gate." Xiahou Yuan planned and said to Li Dian: "Man Cheng, please lead your troops to bypass the eyes and ears of the enemy army in the city, and set up a pass fifteen miles outside the east gate to block the enemy army. If most of the enemy army escapes through the east gate, please stop them for a moment. ”
Li Dian only had 3,000 subordinates, and it was almost impossible to stop the more than 10,000 troops led by 'Zhang Liao' in the city. But Zhang Liao also did not dare to fight to the death between the pursuit and escape, as long as Li Dian could stop Zhang Liao's enemy army for half a moment, and wait for Xiahou Yuan and others to react and lead the troops to kill, it would be a big victory.
Lee immediately took the order, even though he knew it would be a tragic job. But whenever Sergeant Zhang Liaobu wanted to break through, they were smashed to pieces like a fighting ship on a river that wanted to stop the charge with its own strength. But there is no way, among the generals, only his subordinates have such the ability to turn the tide.
On the other hand, among the soldiers and horses, only his subordinates are not surnamed Cao.
Cao Cao is very fair, and the Li clan's military exploits will never be less; But the generals were also not friendly enough to him, and who wouldn't want to push others out when the tough battle came? But when you are the 'other person', sadness is unavoidable.
Chen Gong couldn't see where Li Dian had gone, but he knew that there were fewer enemies under the city.
There are a total of tens of thousands of enemy troops outside the three city walls, and they don't know where they are going, so they can see it no matter what, but Chen Gong doesn't know where they went...... His attention was always fixed on the direction in which Zhang Liao left, as long as the enemy army did not go there, it meant that the situation was not bad.
And if it is not in the direction that Zhang Liao left, the enemy army can only go to one place...... In the distance outside the east gate, the trick of besieging the army is to station troops in a hidden place a little farther outside the city, ten miles away, which is the place where the deserters relax their vigilance the most, and it is also the place where mass casualties are most likely to occur in siege operations.
"Can the stone cannon hit them?"
Chen Gong was not a martial artist, but he was also proficient in the archery of the Six Arts, and he drew his longbow and threw it towards the enemy line. Seeing that the arrows were piercing the open ground hundreds of paces away, startling the enemy troops on the left and right, he shook his head dissatisfied, and said to the general next to him, as if to say to himself: "It's a little far away." ”
Far away is not the arrows that shoot out vigorously, but the positions of the enemy army. It's not surprising that a condescending arrow shoots hundreds of paces, but a stone cannon can't reach that range. The Yan army's stone cannon is considered good, Chen Gong heard that the stone cannon that first appeared on the battlefield in Youzhou can only throw a boulder for about fifty steps, and the current stone cannon is generally extremely good in the range between seventy and one hundred steps, but it is still powerful in the face of such a siege battle.
He hoped that the replacement of these 50 stone cannons with Wuhan Iron and Steel ballistas would inflict a greater morale blow on the enemy.
"Turn the crossbow team over and shoot far." Chen Gong put the longbow aside and said to the left and right: "The enemy army is unwilling to attack the city, provoke them, or make them retreat. ”
In the current situation, the enemy's reluctance to attack the city is inevitable, even if the bow and crossbow can cause dozens of kills and injuries, it may not be able to force the enemy army to attack the city, without five times the strength and siege ordnance, the siege of the city is always a loss. But Chen Gong had no choice, he couldn't do nothing and watch others besiege the city and give all hope to Zhang Liao.
As long as the enemy retreats under the bow and crossbow, it can break their morale, and no matter what choice the enemy makes next, it will be a good thing for Chen Gong.
Hundreds of crossbowmen had been absent from the city for a long time, and when the rain of arrows shot at the enemy like locusts, behind them, in the distance of the eastern city wall, there was a shout of killing......