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Chapter 680: Xiao Ai River Attack and Defense (Re-middle)

The small Ai River, which is not deep, has completely dried up, revealing the riverbed full of pebbles and silt, and the fish bounce a few times from time to time in the sticky mud, making a final dying struggle, without the river, the heavy soldiers of the Hengdao battalion move more quickly, put the huge trees directly across the riverbed, and then throw bundles of firewood and grass on it, and then put some wooden planks or gravel on it, and then cut a thoroughfare about 100 zhang wide in the middle of the riverbed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The heavy ordnance of the Horizontal Knife Battalion quickly crossed the river, with its back against the river bank, and the trebuchet was assembled again, and in front of the trebuchet, the eight-bull crossbow that had not shown up in the previous battle also showed his hideous face, and one by one was placed in front of the trebuchet, one crossbow and four arrows, and the arrows that flashed cold light were aimed at the wall of the Xiaoai River defense line.

Different from the arrows used in the past, this time the crossbow arrows on the Eight Bull Crossbow, which are as thick as children's arms, in addition to the spear tips in front, also have two barbs next to them, which is really awkward to look at.

After a night of repair, Wang Peng's horizontal knife battalion regained its vitality, lined up along the wall of the Xiaoai River into three attack phalanxes, and in their rear, on the opposite bank of the Xiaoai River, Li Fengyi's cavalry battalion also came out of the camp, the soldiers held their horses, quietly watching the battlefield opposite, siege warfare, the role of cavalry is not very large, they have to wait for the foot soldiers to open a passage for them.

Guan Xinglong personally came to Wang Peng's horizontal knife camp and looked up at the opposite city wall, where it was quiet, except for the fluttering flags, there seemed to be no one, but everyone knew that once the siege began, the horizontal knife camp would be greeted by blood and fire.

"General Guan, do you really not dig an embankment to release water? It's a pity, as soon as the flood comes, there will be a lot of uproar, everything will be stopped, and we don't need to fight, and the defense line of the Xiaoai River will collapse. Wang Peng smacked his lips, feeling extremely strange that Guan Xinglong decided to cross the river and attack, instead of digging the dammed lake upstream to attack, and worked hard to block the Xiaoai River, could he just put it there and abandon it?

Guan Xinglong laughed, "Of course it won't work, I just want to scare them." ”

"Scare them?" Wang Peng almost fell off his horse, sent a whole battalion over, and spent countless energy and silver, the purpose was to scare them, of course, the scare was still very effective, at least the opposite side let Zhou Bin run away with half of the Qinzhou soldiers. This is also equivalent to reducing the resistance to Wang Peng's siege.

"Just to scare them!" Guan Xinglong smiled, smiling very proudly. "The drunkard's intention is not to drink, but to care about the mountains and rivers." Shaking his head, Guan Xinglong actually dropped the words.

Wang Peng looked at Guan Xinglong suspiciously, he was Guan Xinglong's old subordinate, and naturally knew that although his chief was literate, there was really not much ink in his stomach, and he really didn't understand why the old chief was so excited.

"Don't understand?" Guan Xinglong tilted his head, with a sly smile on the corner of his mouth.

Wang Peng shook his head.

Guan Xinglong sighed, quite regretful, this is like an extremely clever chef who has worked hard to make a table of delicacies and delicacies, and he has encountered a guy whose taste buds have completely failed, and he can't taste the taste at all, and naturally he can't detect the chef's painstaking efforts.

"At this time, Li Guo's main force is no longer in Aconitum." Guan Xinglong suddenly burst out of a sentence. The line of sight had already crossed the city defense of the Xiaoai River and looked at the continuous Qinling Mountains in the distance.

"No more aconitum anymore?" Wang Peng was puzzled for a while, and then suddenly came to his senses, "General, they are going to ......."

Guan Xinglong nodded proudly, "The dam is built upstream, just to surprise their people, otherwise our 10,000 people will attack the opponent's Xiaoai River, which is guarded by more than 10,000 people, no matter how we fight, we will suffer!" Attacking the battle, ten will attack, five will encircle, we are one-on-one, if the other side is not afraid of our Dingzhou soldiers' unrivaled combat ability, it is not impossible to go out of the city field battle. Surprise them out, and we fight them outside. ”

Wang Peng had fully understood Guan Xinglong's combat intentions at this time, Aconitum built a dam, so that the opponent had the illusion that the Dingzhou army was about to release water to rush the city, so the opponent had to abandon the city in order to preserve its strength and avoid being fish and shrimp, and after the completion of the Aconitum dam, Li Guo's infantry battalion had already left there and secretly inserted it into the opponent's rear, no wonder the general wanted to transfer Li Feng's cavalry battalion to Aconitum in order to prevent the fact that there was no Li Guo's infantry battalion in Aconitum from being exposed, which was more than 50 miles away from Aconitum and was in the cavalry. It is a matter of several hours to come and go, when the opponent is convinced, the withdrawal of troops becomes inevitable, at this time, the aconitum must have been singing empty city plans, Li Guo left a very small number of men and horses to guard the dam at most.

"The general has good means, even I have been deceived." Wang Peng looked at Guan Xinglong with admiration, his eyes were full of admiration, it turned out that what the general used was a strategy to startle the snake. The Qinzhou army that withdrew from Xiaoai River couldn't have imagined that on the way they retreated, there would be a Dingzhou army already in full array, waiting for them to drill!

Guan Xinglong flattened his mouth, and said in his heart, it's too easy to lie to you kid.

"Of course, even you have to hide it, otherwise in yesterday's beach battle, how could your horizontal knife battalion work so hard and fight to the death? All of this is to convince the opponent, Wang Peng, in today's siege battle, you still have to do your best, you are here to fight the remnants of the Xiaoai River defense line, and Li Guo is facing more than 5,000 Qinzhou soldiers, which is not easier than you, and if Li Guo does not go well, he can't be wiped out in one go, let that Zhou Bin escape back with some people, it will be even more difficult for you to attack the formation, so you must take the Xiaoai River defense line as soon as possible. ”

"General, in that case, why don't we just let out the water and wash the fuck!" Wang Peng said with a smile. "It's not that the last general is afraid of death, but some distressed sons, siege battles, casualties are really big, I really fucking hate sieges, or it was good on the grassland at the beginning, everyone set up a good position, you come and go, whoever can't bear it, who wins."

Guan Xinglong said lightly: "I also hate siege operations, but there is no way, in the future, we may encounter more of this kind of siege operations, if we can't even defeat the city defense of Xiaoaihe like this, and we will encounter those fortified cities in the future, what should we do, do we take a detour?" Yes, we can indeed release water to break down the defense line of the Xiaoai River, but have you thought that if you don't do this, it is not only the defense line of the Xiaoai River that will be washed away, but also countless roads, the water is rushing all the way, the momentum is amazing, will it alarm the other party, and the other party is not a fool, don't you know how to run? As soon as he ran, we could only watch from the other side of the river. The flood washed away the road, and we couldn't chase it if we wanted to, and Li Guoke, who was on the other side of the river, was about to suffer. I want a living force to annihilate my opponents, not an empty line of defense on the Xiaoai River. ”

Wang Peng was taken aback, thinking that it was really this reason, "The general is thoughtful, it is Wang Peng Meng Lang." ”

Guan Xinglong smiled slightly, "It's good for you to be sympathetic to your subordinates, but Wang Peng, you have to learn to look at problems from a higher place, and don't limit your vision to just one of your troops." Otherwise, you will only be a battalion commander, and you will not be able to go higher. ”

Wang Peng was stunned, "Thank you for the general's teachings, the last general understands." ”

Guan Xinglong nodded, "It's good to understand, a good general, it's not enough to just read the military book, at the beginning, the general of the mountain wind taught his generals Xiong Dehai, Jiang Heiniu and others bit by bit in the battle, these people are all successful now, I hope you will be like them, and you will be able to stand alone in the future." ”

"Yes, thank you, General!"

"Let's start attacking, remember, before Zhou Bin escapes back, capture the Xiaoai River formation defense or let the other party take the initiative to withdraw, without the city defense, even if the two of them meet, in the field battle, how can a group of remnants of the defeated army stop my unparalleled Dingzhou army!" Guan Xinglong Road.

Wang Peng nodded, "The last general has gone." ”

"Go ahead, I'll give you a crush here."

After a night of silence, the drums of war rang out again, and the steel ropes of dozens of trebuchets were strained violently, and with the crisp sound of the machine's wrenching, one after another stone bullets rose into the air, flew high into the air, and fell to the opposite city defense. Immediately after throwing a stone projectile, the grenadiers desperately turned the winch to pull the throwing arm back, while other shirtless soldiers picked up the stone bullets and strode to the trebuchet to reposition the stone projectiles.

The crossbow arrows on the Eight Ox crossbows roared out with his characteristic whistling sound, the tips of the spears flashed in the sun, and on each crossbow arrow flying quickly in the air, there was a very thin tail, if you didn't pay attention to it, you really couldn't see it. It was a wire rope tied to the spear shaft, and the other end of these wire ropes was tied to a crossbar, and the crossbar was connected to a horse by some other equipment, and at the end of each wire rope, there were four war horses waiting for it.

Dingzhou's long-range attack was irresistible, and the Qinzhou soldiers above the city defense could only shrink into the battle tent or in the dead corner, waiting for this stormy blow to pass as soon as possible. Waiting for the opponent's infantry to start attacking the city, at that time, it will be the time when the swords are bloody, and the guns are deadly, compared to now, the Qinzhou soldiers are eager to fight the enemy face to face, instead of being passively beaten and unable to fight back like now.

Hundreds of eight-ox crossbows did not fly up to the city, but deeply into the city walls, these city walls are only made of giant trees as piles, filled with mud and water stones in the middle, and then connected by horizontal logs between the giant trees, and smeared with thin mud on the outside, although it looks very wide and tall, but not very strong, the strong eight-ox crossbow flew over and nailed to the wall, and immediately penetrated deeply.

Seeing the eight bull crossbows pierced into the city wall, the cavalry that had been prepared for a long time immediately beat their horses and ran to the other side of the Xiaoai River, the war horse neighed, the hooves rushed, only ran more than ten steps, the wire rope was already straightened, the front hooves of the war horse under the knight's crotch stood up, took a few steps back, and then under the fierce blow of the cavalry, it was extremely difficult to move forward step by step.

Under the pull of hundreds of wire ropes, the city wall of more than 100 meters shot by the eight-bull crossbow shook, and the eight-bull crossbow retracted violently, and some crossbow arrows flew upside down, and after flying upside down for dozens of meters in the air, they fell to the ground, while the barbs on some crossbow arrows hooked the main wooden stake of the city wall, and the war horses were desperately pulled, making a grid sound.

"General, General!" A Qinzhou military academy captain held a shield, ran to a hidden soldier cave, and shouted at Zhou Zuxun with some panic.

"What's the panic? Does this little battle make you so alarmed? Zhou Zuxun scolded angrily.

"General, it's not good, the other party is tied to the rope on the eight-bull crossbow arrow, trying to pull down our city wall, and now there are more than a hundred meters and it can't hold it anymore."

Zhou Zuxun was startled, stood up and ran outside the battle shed, and the soldiers around him hurriedly rushed forward with their shields and gathered around him.

Standing on the city wall, Zhou Zuxun saw the dozens of straight wire ropes at a glance, and felt the trembling of the city wall, Zhou Zuxun's face turned a little pale, "What are you still doing, quickly organize people to cut these ropes." ”

"Yes!" The previous lieutenant answered with a loud voice.

"You, you, and you, lead your squad, all with swords, come with me." The lieutenant picked up a sword and ran towards the precarious wall.

With a bang, a wooden stake finally couldn't withstand the strong pull, and broke from it, and the four war horses on the opposite side suddenly neighed, and spread their hooves and ran out, and a section of the wall that lost the support of this stake suddenly collapsed downward, although it was not enough to make the whole wall how, but everyone understood that since this method was useful, then, as long as it continued to do this, the city wall would be pulled down by the other party sooner or later.

A Qinzhou soldier lay on the city wall, and the chopping knife in his hand slashed down, and when there was a sound, the extremely tight wire rope was cut off. Another group of Qinzhou soldiers also followed closely, lying on the city wall, swinging their knives and slashing the wire rope.

Falling like a rain of flying stones on their heads, the archers of the Hengdao Battalion, who had approached the city wall for a distance, drew their bows and opened arrows, shooting at these Qinzhou soldiers who completely exposed their bodies to the outside.

One by one, the wire ropes were cut off, and a Qinzhou soldier named Chopping Rope was shot down the city wall, or hit by a stone bullet, and in less than a pillar of incense, dozens of wire ropes were cut off, while the Qinzhou soldiers paid forty or fifty lives, and the other twenty or thirty wire ropes successfully completed the task, each pulling off the hooked stake.

The Eight Bull Crossbow kept firing this kind of crossbow arrow with a wire rope, and the Hengdao Battalion under the command of Wang Peng also began to advance towards the place where the Eight Bull Crossbow concentrated their shooting, and the archers kept pouring out the rain of arrows, covering the advance of the infantry.

Seeing that the wooden stakes were broken one by one, Zhou Zuxun knew that he had to give it a go, otherwise, if the other party continued to do this, it would be difficult for him to survive even a day, once the opponent broke the city wall, it was conceivable that the world-famous Dingzhou cavalry would inevitably rush in. Zhou Zuxun looked at the other side of the river, and rows of cavalrymen held the reins, sitting on the ground, looking at this side with their eyes.

"The whole army goes to the city and counterattacks." Zhou Zuxun yelled, "All trebuchets, eight-bull crossbows, all-round shooting, targets, siege infantry." Zhou Zuxun was very helpless, the range of his trebuchet and the Eight Bull Crossbow was not as good as that of the opponent, which led to the fact that he only had to be beaten, and the little ordnance that he had saved with great difficulty was completely disposable, and after a round, it would inevitably cause the opponent's stormy blow, hoping that they could kill and injure some of the opponent's siege infantry more in the collapsed area.

After the defense line of Xiaoai River, a stone bullet immediately appeared, hitting Wang Peng's siege infantry. The shields of all the infantry were raised above their heads, and they were connected together by fasteners to form a huge turtle shell to minimize the impact of the stone bullets per unit area, but when the stone bullets fell from a height of tens of meters, the soldiers directly below were still shocked off their arms and fell to the ground.

Wang Peng was unmoved, his eyelids didn't blink, he also walked under these turtle shells, just a stone bullet fell, just on his right side, several soldiers fell in front of his eyes, stepping across the bodies of these people, Wang Peng shouted: "Dingzhou army, forward!" Dingzhou Army, Wan Sheng! ”

Thousands of siege infantry shouted in unison, the empty space was quickly filled, and the turtle shell kept moving forward.

Guan Xinglong stood under the banner of the Chinese army, looked at the countless extra heads on the city, and smiled coldly, "Destroy the opponent's trebuchet and the Eight Bull Crossbow, and then replace it with stone bullets." ”

After several rounds of strikes by the Dingzhou trebuchet, the long-range weapons of the Xiaoai River defense line were completely muted, the grenadiers suffered heavy casualties, and the trebuchets were basically smashed into pieces of broken wood. On the other side, the Dingzhou grenadiers saw that the opponent had completely lost the ability to suppress them from a distance, so they immediately put bags of gravel wrapped in cloth or nets on the trebuchet, turned the bracket and launched it.

The gravel of the façade scattered in all directions, and the gravel that covered the sky and the sun fell on the city like a rain, and the city immediately resounded with screams, all of which were selected and scattered, and which were shot out by the trebuchet, flew in all directions like shotguns, mercilessly killing and wounding the defenders of the city.

At this time, dozens of wooden stakes were pulled out, the city wall collapsed again, and the fallen mounds of earth and stones were piled up into a slope, and Wang Peng led a sentry foot soldier to rush up along this slope frantically.

Just now, Zhou Zuxun was hit by a piece of gravel on the helmet, the huge force made him dizzy, the helmet was also hit and dented, and a big bag was swollen on his head, just sobered up, he saw Wang Peng rushing up with someone, and before he could think about it, he pulled out his war knife and yelled, "Follow me!" "Rushing towards the gap.

Under the city, the Eight Bull Crossbow had already turned in one direction, turning its attacking fire to the other wall. The trebuchet began to extend its range, ruthlessly pouring rubble over the opponent's head.

"Kill!" Wang Peng, who rushed up, met Zhou Zuxun who rushed over with a war knife at the top of the slope.

"Dog's day, look at the stick!" Wang Peng shouted, with several feather arrows inserted in his body, he was pressed by a Taishan, and the cooked copper stick slammed down with the sound of the wind.