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Chapter 980: The Last Battle of Pingzhou (Part II)

As the weather became warmer day by day, and the dawn was getting earlier day by day, Zhou Yi did not sleep all night, and kept staring at the city tower, watching the deputy general Ge Wen sneak into the center of the battlefield quietly with two thousand soldiers, approaching the other side little by little, until he could no longer move forward, he lay quietly on the ground, mixed with the dead corpses all over the ground, and only then let out a long breath, Ge Wen's strategy was at least half successful. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Shenwei artillery position of the Dingzhou army is the sharpest position to attack, but on the other hand, it is also the place where the least concentration of troops, if you can successfully disrupt this position, it is not empty talk to break through by yourself, not to mention, even if you can't break through, you can destroy a batch of the opponent's Shenwei cannon, which is also a great help for the future war, Shenwei cannon casting is not easy, I believe that there are not many weapons in Dingzhou, every one less will be more help in the future.

Zhou Tong was above the four gates of Pingzhou, except for the current east gate, the other gates only left five hundred soldiers to confuse the other party, and the city mostly used scarecrows to put on armor and pretend to be soldiers, and its main force was now concentrated on the east gate, as long as Ge Wen successfully rushed into the opponent's artillery position, he would immediately go out of the city to fight.

The palms of his hands were so nervous that he sweated, Zhou Tong smiled self-deprecatingly, at the moment of life and death, he was still not exempt from vulgarity after all.

A round of red sun jumped up from the horizon, almost at the same time, the rumbling war drums sounded in the opposite military camp, and the Dingzhou army swept out, standing on top of the city tower, listening to the alarm bells sounding at the same time at the four gates, Zhou Tong turned his head and looked at the opponent's formation, "It turned out to be the four gates attacking at the same time, yes, I am already at the end of the strong crossbow, the opponent has strong troops, of course, I was swallowed alive." ”

Slowly drawing out the war knife, Zhou Tong said in a deep voice: "Brothers, get ready, we will either rush out alive, or die honorably under the city, let our souls go home!" ”

As the first cannonball swept through the air, it hit the head of Pingzhou City heavily, and exploded, and the battle of the Dingzhou army besieging Pingzhou City officially began, Guo Quan attacked the east gate, Wei Xin hit the south gate, Jiang Heiniu hit the west gate, Xiong Dehai hit the north city, and the four gates attacked at the same time.

The deafening sound of artillery resounded between the heavens and the earth, and the rising smoke obscured the rising sunlight, and more than 10,000 soldiers under the command of Feng Lishi launched an attack at the same time outside the wall of Dongcheng, which was about five miles wide. Under the cover of the cannons, they passed through the firing range of the opponent's trebuchets and crossbows without hindrance, and advanced towards the city walls.

"That's not right!" Tian Feng frowned, "General Lu, no matter how fierce the Shenwei cannon is, how can the opponent's trebuchet, eight-bull crossbow and other heavy weapons still shoot out, what kind of demon moth is Zhou Tong coming out?" ”

Lu Dalin was also puzzled.

But the changes on the battlefield had already given them the best answer, on the battlefield that Feng Li's division had just rushed through, where there were originally a lot of corpses, suddenly burst out with earth-shattering shouts, and one by one figures jumped up from the ground, holding swords and guns, and rushed madly towards the artillery position that was only more than a thousand meters away from them.

"Oops!" Lu Dalin, Tian Feng, Guan Xinglong and others lost their color at the same time, they were prepared that the other party would steal the camp and attack and harass, but they never expected that the other party would come to such a move, and the soldiers sent out actually pretended to be dead corpses and went to attack the artillery position at this time.

"Tian Xinyu, Tian Xinyu!" Lu Dalin shouted, "Take your subordinates and quickly go to reinforce the artillery position." ”

Tian Feng bit his lip, if Zheng Zhiqiang saw the opportunity quickly, it would be good to block the opponent outside the artillery position, but if he let the opponent rush into the artillery position, it would be bad.

Guo Quan, who was commanding the troops to prepare for the siege, also noticed the abnormality on the battlefield, and turned his head to see the figure jumping from the ground behind him, he was also shocked, "Wang Zhen, take your people back and kill them all!" ”

Wang Zhen responded, and just turned around with his men, the four gates on the east gate city wall opened at the same time, and Zhou Tongma took the lead, jumping out with a gun, "Brothers, kill, follow me and rush up, we are going home!" ”

Guo Quan's brows were twisted into a Sichuan character, he knew that he had made a mistake. Seeing the number of enemies pouring out of the four city gates, it was almost certain that this was all the men and horses of Zhou Tong, and the opponent actually went out of the city to fight, throwing alone, this style of play could not help but surprise himself, and also surprised several generals.

When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins! Guo Quan couldn't think of anything else at this time, rushed up, stopped them, disturbed them, behind him, there were countless reinforcements, several generals would definitely react at the first time, mobilize troops and horses to besiege the opponent, and all he had to do was to block the opponent.

Zheng Zhiqiang knew that there was trouble, his own Marine Division only had a thousand people on the artillery position, and the other party not only had more people than himself, but also a group of dead soldiers who did not want to die. Zheng Zhiqiang roared, if this group of outlaws were allowed to rush into the artillery position, it would be a big trouble.

The artillerymen didn't care about firing their guns at this time, and one by one they also pulled out their weapons and rushed up.

Gwen roared and swung his saber and strode forward, with fewer and fewer soldiers around him, but he was getting closer and closer to the artillery position, and he could clearly see the high barrel of the Shenwei cannon.

"Kill!" He slashed one person at a time, approaching step by step.

Zheng Zhiqiang's eyes were red, slashing left and right, chasing after Ge Wen.

Gwen smashed into the artillery position, and with a slash of his saber on the ground, a torch was picked up high by him, and with a whoosh flew to the box on the side, which he knew was filled with gunpowder from the Shenwei cannon.

A Dingzhou soldier rushed over from the oblique thorn, jumped up in the air, grabbed the torch halfway up, and fell to the ground, before he could stand firmly, Ge Wen's big knife had already slashed, and with a bang, he was cut in two, and the sprayed blood soaked the powder box behind him.

Ge Wen frantically brandished the big knife with one hand, held the torch in the other hand, went down with a knife, split open another box, looked at the black powder inside, Ge Wen laughed wildly, "Die, let me die!" "Throw the torch into the black powder.

There was an earth-shattering bang, a huge explosion blew Ge Wen out of sight, and a Shenwei cannon beside him was also lifted high into the sky, turning a few tendons in the air, falling heavily to the ground, and had become a piece of scrap metal, with this explosion, the sound of explosions on the artillery position suddenly came and went, one after another Shenwei cannon was overturned to the ground, and black cannonballs flew in the air.

Zheng Zhiqiang fell to the ground violently, covering his head with his hands, and curled up tightly, trying to minimize the area of his body. In the distance, Wang Zhen, who was rushing back, stopped suddenly, "Damn, it's useless to go back!" ”

"The whole army turns around and eats all those crumbs!" Wang Zhen roared angrily.

Feng Li division suffered a loss in the unguarded opponent actually poured out of the nest at the east gate, for a while, in the strength of the army but Zhou Tong had the upper hand, plus Guo Quan in order to return to the division to rescue the artillery position, and mobilized Wang Zhen to come back, this time to come, the artillery position was not saved, but disrupted their own formation, Zhou Tong is the so-called holding the mourning soldiers will win, outlaw killing, for a while, it is actually Feng Li Division's department to kill people on their backs, and rushed out of a bloody road.

"Kill!" Zhou Tong rushed out of the crowd covered in blood, and hit the battalion that Wang Zhen killed back head-on, both sides were red-eyed at this time, and in the roar, they bumped into each other again.

Under the banner of the Chinese army, Lu Dalin's face was red with anger, he had not suffered this kind of loss for many years.

"Feng Lishi can't stop it!" Tian Feng said on the side.

Lu Dalin glanced at the artillery position, the situation was under control at this time, Tian Xinyu's department had already arrived, and the formation was lined up in front of the artillery position, while Zheng Zhiqiang's department was inspecting the Shenwei cannon in disgrace.

"It's okay!" Lu Dalin popped out two words from the root of his teeth.

"Order the three cavalry divisions of Lu Dabing, Li Feng, and Buyangu to go around to the periphery and set up another defensive line for me."

Guo Quan finally did not block Zhou Tong's desperate assault, after the Luoyang army dispersed Wang Zhen's counterattack, rushed out from the gap, at this time, from the other three sides of the siege of the Hailing camp, the Violent Bear Battalion, Ruijian Battalion almost did not encounter any resistance in the city smoothly broke into the city, the abnormal situation let them also know that something was wrong, directly through the city, and the embarrassed and embarrassed Guo Quanhui Division, rushed away.

Zhou Tong, who broke through the encirclement, did not have time to catch his breath, in front of him, a group of Dingzhou iron cavalry appeared in his field of vision, and without waiting for the desperate Luoyang soldiers to react, in the shouts of the Dingzhou army Wansheng, the cavalry launched a charge.

Lu Dalin, Tian Feng, Guan Xinglong surrounded by the soldiers, came to the artillery position, as for Zhou Tong's remnants, the three of them were not interested, Zhou Tong could not break through the cavalry charge, even if a small number of men and horses escaped, in front of the Dingzhou cavalry, they could only be caught up one by one, and they were killed.

But the three of them did not have the joy of victory, this battle, if you really want to talk about it, but they lost, if it were not for the absolute superiority of the Dingzhou army in terms of troops, it would definitely not be able to stop Zhou Tong's breakthrough.

Zheng Zhiqiang's face was scorched, and he greeted him in embarrassment.

"How's it going?" Guan Xinglong asked.

"More than thirty Kamui cannons were blown up, and the artillery lost about two hundred people. The others suffered more than 500 casualties in the battle with the opposing assault soldiers, and more than 2,000 soldiers of the opposing side were completely annihilated. ”

The faces of the three generals darkened.

"The lord once said, the lion fights the rabbit, the lion fights the rabbit, we ourselves are too careless, we think that we have won the volume, so it has caused such a consequence, I will write to the lord to ask for guilt!" Lu Dalin said gloomily: "Before that, the whole army will be taken over by General Tian Feng first, and I will wait for the order of the lord in the sin camp!" ”

Tian Feng said: "General Lu, this matter is not your fault alone, I am willing to jointly write a letter to ask for guilt, before the arrival of the lord's order, please also ask General Lu not to pick a pick, in front of us, Qu Yongjie still has hundreds of thousands of troops waiting for us to pursue!" ”

"I'm also willing to write a joint letter to ask for guilt!" Guan Xinglong said, "General Lu, please take back your order, no matter what, we still wiped out Zhou Tong's troops and rushed down to Pingzhou, at least it is worth the merits!" ”

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